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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Monday Nov 01, 2010
Monday Nov 01, 2010
Introductory class on Dante -- the poet is the one who goes to the underworld this time, not only the hero. Sybil:Aeneas::Virgil:Dante. Terza rima and the advent of rhyme. Modernism: epic in a modern language that aims at the power and prestige of ancient epic. The topography of hell. Dante as science fiction writer.
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