He insists on a shared edition so interpretive discussion stays synchronized at the line level.
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Jiang insists that judging great poetry cannot be reduced to simple exposure, preservation, or citation, and he pushes the class toward a deeper criterion of recognition.
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"Oh. Let's try to use one version, okay? As you can see, this is the minimum version of the Columbia website. Okay? Let's just..."
"Yeah, but so? We can read a lot of work, but how do we know what's great and what's not? If the world persists,..."
"I think we'll just know if the work is great, we just know the work is great. Yeah, but how do we know? We..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
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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