Teaching Dante

• Other Authors: Metress, Christopher (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Religion & beliefs; Dante; Richard Rorty; ethics; philosophy; interdisciplinary; pedagogy; Dante Alighieri; The Divine Comedy; Homer; The Odyssey; Ulysses; core curriculum; noumena; symbolism; higher education; core and general education curricula; literary studies; interdisciplinarity; great books programs; teaching; virtue; formation; understanding; prayer; hope; friendship; Christian Humanism; The Christian Intellectual Tradition; Literature Pedagogy; Milton; Spenser; Purgatorio; love; education; Virgil; Augustine; Confessions; Commedia; Inferno; Paradiso; theology and poetry; medieval astrology; Beatrice; Gospel of Luke; Emmaus; figura; Christ; Eric Auerbach; history of theology; medieval theology; Divine Comedy; undergraduate seminar; great books; caritas; Catholicism; theology; poetry; the liberal arts; Great Books programs
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In October 2018, Samford University hosted Teaching Dante, a conference designed to help non-specialists teach the work of the Florentine poet more effectively in undergraduate core and general education courses. This volume of essays on the Divine Comedy includes a keynote address by Albert Russell...