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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, good morning. So, these next two classes, today and on Saturday, will be the most intense classes of the series, of the seminar...."
Jiang says the final two seminar meetings will cover Canto 24 through Canto 33 line by line because the end of the Divine Comedy demands unusually intense attention.
Jiang says the best seminar questions come from students rereading the text, matching the argument against exact lines, and forcing the room to think more deeply about meaning.
"Okay, good morning. So, these next two classes, today and on Saturday, will be the most intense classes of the series, of the seminar...."
"Okay, good morning. So the live stream is on. So, um, yesterday, you had a chance to ask questions about the previous class, and..."
The late cantos become Jiang's sharpest Dante claim so far: faith is not obedience but imagination that helps make truth real, hope is the arrogant wager that exile and persecution can still bear fruit,...
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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