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Dante’S Divine Comedy: A Pastoral Subversion, Katie Francom
Dante’S Divine Comedy: A Pastoral Subversion, Katie Francom
Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism
This paper attempts to widen the scholarly understanding of Dante’s use of pastoral modes within The Divine Comedy. By examining typical pastoral themes, Dante’s use of Virgil as a guide, and the presence of pastoral themes within the Comedy, this paper will ultimately assert that Dante completely reshapes the pastoral genre, taking it from its typically pagan history and giving it new, Christian meaning. By so doing he makes his beautifully artistic story into an enlightening spiritual journey for the reader.
Cultural Commentary: "If You Like The Book, You'll Love The Tour": Seeing Italy With Dante, Barbara Apstein
Cultural Commentary: "If You Like The Book, You'll Love The Tour": Seeing Italy With Dante, Barbara Apstein
Bridgewater Review
No abstract provided.
Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen
Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen
Verdi Forum
No abstract provided.
The Gulag Archipelago: From Inferno To Paradiso, David Matual
The Gulag Archipelago: From Inferno To Paradiso, David Matual
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
It is apparent from the title of his novel The First Circle and from various details there and in other works that Alexander Solzhenitsyn is familiar with at least the imagery of Dante's Divine Comedy. One direct and several indirect references to it also suggest a Dantean subtext in his longest and most ambitious project, The Gulag Archipelago. Indeed, the loci of the Comedy—Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso—are transformed in the Gulag into metaphorical representations of the various stages in the development of man's consciousness—and especially Solzhenitsyn's consciousness—during the ordeals of arrest, inquest, imprisonment, …