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Bromwich's settled view is that the witches should be understood through belief: people believed in them, and once belief is strong enough, the experience becomes real in practice whether or not the metaphysics are resolved.
For Jiang, the Divine Comedy is built as a journey because redemption happens through a process of experience and reflection rather than instant purity.
Jiang explicitly frames the Dante workshop as potentially life-transforming and asks students to assess whether reading Dante has altered the trajectory of their lives.
He rejects the idea that Dante should hurry out of the realm of liars and instead says Dante must experience hell as fully as possible so he can return and tell others the truth about sin.
Jiang presents first-hand encounter, not avoidance, as the path to truth: understanding is heightened by entering the thing and then reporting it.
Jiang treats the experiential effect of reading the Divine Comedy as the next relevant test case after the possession debate.
Students report that reading the Divine Comedy produces bodily and dream-level effects, not only intellectual interpretation.
The participant answer Jiang approves says lived experience such as falling in love or becoming a parent is the better path for understanding resentment toward one's parents.
"...them there because if you believe in something you will probably experience it you will even experience your own self -righteousness if you"
"...avoiding these emotions. It's coming to terms with these emotions through experience, through reflection. And it's a process of self -development. Okay? And this..."
"Has this been a life -transforming experience for you? Has it changed the trajectory of your life? And, you know, there's no right or..."
"interesting interpretation and um i would disagree um because why would what's it important for dante to journey into hell right because because why..."
"talk to him talk to him yes um go back to the world and talk about the consequences of sins"
"...donnie's gonna record this so it's very important for donnie to experience as much as he can in hell it's not about escaping hell..."
"Okay. All right. That's very interesting. Okay. Let me ask you this question. Okay. Did we have a... Let me ask you this question...."
"This will sound extremely strange, but a lot of my lymph nodes started draining when I really studied the Divine Comedy. I think because..."
"Yeah, kind of. I kind of felt the same, because I dreamed, like, a lot more frequently for these few days. And also, like,..."
"Yes? Similar to the other classmates. I think dreams have been a bit different in the last few weeks. Like, I remember on the..."
"Develop more experiences, right? So let's just say that you have problems with your parents, okay? You really, really hate your parents. You go..."
"get over this so you go out and have life experiences yourself you go out fall in love"
A source-grounded reading of a five-hour hybrid workshop that begins with Macbeth and ends by turning Purgatory, free will, tragedy, envy, and generosity into one model of human transformation.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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...
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
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