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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is exactly the sort of interaction that I want in the seminar, where you guys are really analyzing the text critically, and this is..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is exactly the sort of interaction that I want in the seminar, where you guys are really analyzing the text critically, and this is..."
Jiang's shorthand for a discussion format built around close reading, student questions, and adversarial refinement of meaning rather than passive lecture reception.
He presents the seminar's goal as reproducing a Yale-style critical discussion in which student objections and textual questions sharpen the reading.
"...is exactly the sort of interaction that I want in the seminar, where you guys are really analyzing the text critically, and this is..."
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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