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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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Mandelbaum
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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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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"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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"...Dante over to St. Peter to initiate the examination. In Alan Mandelbaum's translation, that exact line reads, and tests him as he pleads on..."
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