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Used to describe maintaining American public support for war, which Jiang says the film treats as more important than the European war front.
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home front
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Jiang argues that Saving Private Ryan frames the European war front as secondary to winning the American home front and keeping the public behind the war.
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"makes us look bad. We have to win the home front. Okay? Europe, this war front, it's secondary to the home front. We need..."
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"...drew near us for they ran and ran and two in front of them who wept were crying in her journey mary made haste..."
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"...upon that honest one he sees the other bearing her in front tearing her clothes and showing me her belly the stench that came..."
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"...forward, he's behind Dante. So, um, because he's barring her in front, it's almost like he's hiding herself. And I think that when he's..."
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"...lifting it so that its horn of flame rose always in front of them is higher my master said i think it's time that..."
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"...all the crowd surrounds the one who won one goes in front and one tugs at his back and at his side one asks..."
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"...purgatory there is it is it a beeline one step in front of the other always progress because i self -reflect when i fail..."
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"...now fear tasks not in their charge. They were shown in front, and all that group, divided into seven choirs, made two of my..."
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"...Has anyone actually done that? Has anyone just sat down in front of a painting for a whole afternoon and just looked at it?..."
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"...of art you're putting on your face so when you're in front of her it's very about co -creation because it's your inner feeling..."
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"...because there are so many people just you know standing in front of you."
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"...high he had slung a sinner upward from the thighs in front the demon gripped him by the ankles then from our bridge he..."
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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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.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's central claim: late Inferno is where private vice hardens into social design.
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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Dante's Hell is not just a ladder of sins in this lecture.
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A source-grounded reading of the seminar's central move: Inferno is not only a theater of punishments but a machine for moral reflection, and Virgil's authority keeps showing the limits that Dante will eventually have...
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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.
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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,...
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