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Jiang's framework distinguishing the pilgrim protagonist, the historical poet, and a third Dante still being teased out in discussion.
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three Dantes
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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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A student's first answer is that the third Dante is an imaginative Dante.
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A student interprets the third Dante as an imaginative self, the figure Dante pictures himself to be in heaven or other imagined places.
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Another student proposes that the third Dante is the essential or archetypal poet.
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Jiang indicates that these guesses are missing the intended answer by telling the class the question is not hard and restating the first two Dantes before asking again for the third.
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A further student guess is that the third Dante is a future Dante.
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Another student guesses that the third Dante is the Dante he imagines himself as.
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The correct third Dante is not the reader but the writer or poet, a figure Jiang distinguishes from both the pilgrim protagonist and the historical Dante.
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"...let me explain this in context, OK? There are at least three Dantes in the Divine Comedy. There are at least three Dantes in..."
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"Imaginative Dante. CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: Can you explain what that means? Impressible, you know, like what he imagined himself to be, like in..."
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"CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: Well, I don't think that he is the essential poet. Like, he is the essence of the poet. He's the..."
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"...ANNE RIDDLE JR.: It's not that hard, guys. There's a third Dante. Who is the third Dante? The first is the character, the protagonist...."
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"I'd just like to randomly guess one. The Dante in the future? CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: This is not a hard question, yes."
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"...JR.: The reader. No, we're the reader. So who's the third Dante? Maybe the Holy Father, Holy Son. CAROL ANNE RIDDLE JR.: No, no,..."
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"...is that the conflict is between himself, OK? There is the Dante, the pilgrim, who is trying to see God, but there's Dante, the..."
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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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