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Jiang's label for the staged heavenly encounter that symbolizes Dante's inward change rather than literally causing it.
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literary conceit
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...um, okay. So to understand this is that this is a literary conceit, okay? The way he lets go of his ego and fear..."
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Jiang says the meeting with Dante's ancestor in heaven is a literary conceit, while the deeper transformation is Dante's real process of letting go of ego and fear by writing the Divine Comedy.
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"...um, okay. So to understand this is that this is a literary conceit, okay? The way he lets go of his ego and fear..."
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"...people. I'm Croatian. You know, like you find this arrogance and conceit everywhere. So, yeah, that's fair enough. But, you know, when you mentioned..."
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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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Jiang frames the Iran conflict as a managed long war: visible ceasefires do not remove structural incentives that keep military pressure, debt extraction, and elite coordination in place.
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