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Jiang poses the unresolved problem that the same poem can convert everyone except its own author.
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Jiang argues the holy fire still leaks out strongly enough that receptive readers can be drawn to Christianity even through a compromised poem.
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A student says the Divine Comedy persuades because readers are made to go on the same journey Dante undergoes rather than merely hear an argument.
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Jiang says The Divine Comedy is a pure act of imagination rather than a literal report of a trip to heaven, and that the pilgrim is designed to let each reader undertake his own subjective journey.
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Another student says the extended dialogue lets readers reason their way through Dante's experience instead of being handed a conclusion without participation.
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Dante's journey is a cosmic journey that takes the reader with him, not merely a private literary itinerary.
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Jiang says Dante reaches the answer to the human-in-God paradox but refuses to state it because the poem only works when each reader puts the pieces together.
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Meaning is co-created: the reader's understanding and interpretation give life and power to sparse biblical words.
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"...way that status embraced christianity versus a poet status is a reader what's going on here it's like he changed the"
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"convert to christianity what's going on here it can move everybody except virgil he's like the"
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"...out and if you're willing if you are a receptive enough reader you're able to still feel that light and that"
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"light will draw you to christianity doesn't make sense okay but the poet has committed evil and sin by trapping the holy fire and..."
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"uh they need to let the readers or the audience go on the journey uh like he did to embody and to emphasize what..."
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"into his brain uh uh okay so first of all the vine comedy it's a pure act of imagination right he didn't actually go..."
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"I think it's just for the reader to, so the reader can reason it out through Dante's experience in heaven. So as a reader,..."
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"So they're not in purgatory, okay? And what Cato is saying is that purgatory is a mountain. They have to climb the mountain to..."
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"How is it that a human is within God itself? That should not be possible. We are separate. God is good. We are evil...."
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"But then my mind was struck by light that flashed and with this light received what it had been asked. He now has an..."
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"-creation. Okay? Your meaning co -creation. Your meaning your understanding your interpretation is what gives life to these words. There are not many words..."
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