Jiang introduces a tripartite framework for reading Dante: the pilgrim protagonist, the historical Dante, and a third Dante the class still has to identify.
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Jiang opens the Dante series by doing something deliberately strange: he starts with Paradise, rejects the clever but dead answer, and says imagination is the road to truth.
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