EN 313 - Dante's "Divine Comedy"

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Colorado College

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Intensive study (in translation) of Dante and his intertexts as context for readings and/or further coursework in later English literature (Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Shelley, Joyce, T. S. Eliot, etc.). Block 8: Dante's "Divine Comedy". Reading Dante's Divina Commedia can be a harrowing experience: its intertexts and allegory shadowy at best when viewed through a mirror darkened by 700 years of human experience. The primary goal of this course is to make reading the Divine Comedy less infernal: to provide you with the basic medieval cultural matrices that will help you make sense of the substance of this immense poem without robbing you of the change to be, as Borges describes, "carried away" by the Commedia. Revel in the brilliance and perversity of Dante's literary imagination. Prerequisite: 200 or 300-level lit course in CO, EN, or other literatures or consent of instructor. (Also listed as Comparative Literature 351.) 1 unit - Evitt.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.coloradocollege.edu

Phone Number:

(719) 389-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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