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Jiang prefers the Allen Mandelbaum translation because he is focusing on the ideas rather than the language.
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Jiang prefers the Allen Mandelbaum translation because he is focusing on the ideas rather than the language.
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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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"Okay, so he's saying, right, this is the very beginning of the Divine Comedy. This is the Alan Menenbaum translation, okay? And I choose..."
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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..."
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"are there are these translations by um Longfellow which is uh beautiful but it's really complicated um I think um extra pound has also..."
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