prediction
Jiang predicts that readers who stay with the Divine Comedy over time will begin to feel a similar ascent, as though lifting themselves toward heaven and participating in transcendence.
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Key Notes
normative
Jiang directs students to look for other interpretations online and arrive at their own understanding of the text.
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The class is presented as groundwork for a lifelong reading of Divine Comedy rather than a complete explanation of the poem in one course or one year.
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"I feel like I can't go outside, because if I go outside, a scooter might bump into me, and I'll get angry and all..."
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"And again, but the ultimate sensation, and I'm not sure if you guys ever had this, is you feel really light. You feel as..."
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"And, again, all this is my interpretation. Look for other interpretations. They're all available online, right? And really come to your own understanding. And..."
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"That doesn't get you anywhere. Understand the universe fundamentally as about faith, as about consciousness, as about love and imagination. All right, okay. So..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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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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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante restores imagination against empire, reveals a universe held together by divine light, and ends by making humanity necessary to God's own self-knowledge.
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