Jiang says he uses Allen Mandelbaum's translation because it is accessible, and he avoids close reading The Divine Comedy because translated diction cannot bear that kind of word-level analysis.
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Jiang says he uses Allen Mandelbaum's translation because it is accessible, and he avoids close reading The Divine Comedy because translated diction cannot bear that kind of word-level analysis.
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"using this as a pretext in order to speak the truth okay does that make sense he he needs he needs funding he needs..."
"...was written in Tuscan I've tried I tried to avoid a close reading okay uh because with close reading you want to analyze the..."
"...Paul. And again, what we're showing you is that through a close reading, you can see how problematic it is. So, does that answer..."
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