Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>In <em>The Banquet</em> Dante Alighieri described the "senses" in which a text might be expounded and understood. The immediate and common sense was the literal; the remaining senses were the allegorical, the moral, and the anagogic, or spiritual. A text could be meaningful on all four levels, but the highest and ultimately most valued sense was the spiritual. For Dante the world itself was symbolic, pointing to a greater truth beyond it.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Arts
- Level thesis:degree_level
- thesis
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Department of English
- Year dc:date.issued
- 1989
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Swanson, Diana
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- en
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/21/
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dr.lib.iastate.edu:20.500.12876/73615