Dr. Glenn Steinberg
Tuesday/Friday 3:30pm-4:50pm
In this course, we read the entire Divine Comedy and examine Dante’s poem in the light of current literary theory (including Louis Althusser, Judith Butler, and Jacques Derrida). Themes explored in the course include Dante’s role in reassuring (or challenging) his readers as subjects within a particular ideology (particularly in terms of gender politics) and the nature and limits of language (particularly in relation to metaphor).