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A second student suggests that Beatrice may function less as a real historical person than as a textual figure of blessedness, and Jiang immediately rejects that reduction.
"Yes? So I, you know, since we have an Italian scholar already, so I'm going back to textualist and regionalist analysis. All right. Beatrice..."
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,...
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