Chapter PART I. Students' Conversations with Dante

The creative pieces in this volume reveal the complex relationship that young South African writers have with Dante and his Commedia. Notable for their personal response to the poet, they engage in a process of rewriting Dante, who appears variously as a mirror and as a remote presence against which...

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Language:English
Published: Florence Firenze University Press 2021
Series:Studi e saggi
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