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Jiang's interpretive leap that Dante presents himself as the sufferer whose ordeal can bring salvation.
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Christ figure
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A student proposes that Dante's predicted suffering may be framed both through Aeneas and through Christ-like suffering that brings about a new life.
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Jiang says the student's reading is correct: Dante is patterned both on Aeneas's journey and on a Christ figure who suffers and dies to bring salvation into the world.
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A student proposes that Catholic theology treats suffering for Christ as spiritually ennobling, so Dante may understand his exile as a Christ-like sacrifice undertaken for his great work.
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"Could this be seen as drawing a parallel between himself and the experiences of that guy, Aeneas, I think his name is Aeneas, from..."
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"...the imaginative leap that Dante is really presenting himself as a Christ figure in the Divine Comedy, the one who must suffer, the one..."
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"...So maybe Dante is subconsciously, uh, subconsciously likening himself to a Christ figure. And he thinks that suffering for the sake of Christ, for..."
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The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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