ENGC 6049 - Dante's Divine Comedy

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University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

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Description:

This course will familiarize undergraduate and graduate students with Dante's poetry, available to English readers in many different old and new translations. In fact, much attention is devoted to Dante's Comedy as rendered in English by other poets who have toiled to bring the Italian text to us. Students read the entirety of the Inferno, a substantial selection of the Canti from Purgatory, and a smaller sample from Paradise. Graduate students, as well as advanced English majors who desire to do so, will also read some carefully chosen critical essays on the theory of translation. Since our working definition of translation will be broad, students who wish to work on translations of the Divine Comedy are welcome also to consider different / non-literary media, of which there are several. All students are expected to participate in discussion forums and group pages, to give group presentations (individual presentations in the case of graduate students), to do in-class writing of various kinds (including critical responses), and to write and workshop a longer term project (even more expansive for graduate students) on a topic identified early in the quarter.

Credits:

3.00 - 4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uc.edu

Phone Number:

(513) 556-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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