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Lecture 13 - Purgatory XIX, XXI, XXII

This video was recorded at ITAL 310 - Dante in Translation. This lecture deals primarily with Purgatory XIX, XXI and XXII. The ambiguity of the imagination discussed in the preceding lecture as the selfsame path to intellectual discovery and disengagement is explored in expressly poetic terms. While the pilgrim's dream of the siren in Purgatory XIX warns of the death-dealing power of aesthetics, the encounter between Statius and Virgil in the cantos that follow points to its life-giving potential by casting poetry as a means of conversion. Reading assignment: Dante, Purgatory: XIX, XXI, XXII Resources: Visual Resources - Lecture 13 [HTML] Textual Resources - Lecture 13 [PDF]

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Humanities / Comparative Literature and Classics

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Material Type:: Presentation
Date Added to MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 10, 2015
Author:: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Department of Italian, Yale University
Submitter:: The Open Education Consortium
Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Video

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Language:: English
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