Dante's Divine Comedy
Nearly 700 years after his death, Dante persists as a presence in contemporary culture, with new translations that come out almost every year, and many adaptations and references in literature, film, television, and the like. But there are those who have objected to the reading of the Divine Comedy in the global 21st century, arguing that it is racist and sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic. In this course, we will consider what it means to read a 14th-century poem in the here and now.
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