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Literary Influences On Dante's Use Of Fear In The Commedia, Andrew Pearson
Literary Influences On Dante's Use Of Fear In The Commedia, Andrew Pearson
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This presentation explores the literary influences that may have guided Dante's use and development of fear reflected and directed by his use of the word paura. These influences include Aristotle, Cicero, St. Augustine, St. Benedict, and St. Thomas Aquinas. The presenter also suggests a distant echo of fear finding its way into John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Eco's Echoes: Fictional Theory And Detective Practice In The Name Of The Rose, David H. Richter
Eco's Echoes: Fictional Theory And Detective Practice In The Name Of The Rose, David H. Richter
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose is a serio-comic pastiche of the detective story set in the middle ages, which uses history as "a distant mirror" to comment, from a Western Marxist perspective, on contemporary political issues. Structurally, however, The Name of the Rose is a fictional enactment of many of the semiotician's recent critical and philosophical ideas. ( 1) Eco's discussion of "abductive" reasoning in C. S. Peirce and Aristotle appears in a detective not only more fallible than Sherlock Holmes but more aware of what his powers consist of and why they work and fail. (2) Eco's …