—Somewhat Topical Ecards, February 7, 2014
Harry Lachman, Dante’s Inferno, 1935
“Dante’s Inferno (1935, USA). The title actually refers to a fairground attraction, the story is of the people who run it. Spencer Tracy plays Jim Carter, a lazy sailor who loses his job as a ship’s boiler stoker. [ . . . ] The meandering storyline fails to portray Carter as being that much of a baddie, as his business practices are infinitely less shoddy than Gordon Gecko’s. At home he’s such a convincing family man it’s hard to dislike him. He’s hardly ‘hell’ material and the story is often far removed from anything from Dante.” –Mark Hodgson, Black Hole Reviews, December 3, 2010
Prue Shaw, “Why Dante Is Relevant Today” (2014)
“How can a poet who wrote 700 years ago in medieval Italy possibly be relevant to today’s world? [ . . . ] Italy’s great medieval poet is the equal of England’s great Renaissance playwright in the power of his imagination and the expressive force of his language. His capacity to harness both has created a poetic work whose relevance is universal and timeless. The Comedy is as relevant today as it ever was.” –Prue Shaw, Huffington Post, February 18, 2014
“Failure Pile in a Sadness Bowl”: Dante as Inspiration for Creative Writers
“If you ever feel bad about your own writing, just remember that one of the world’s most well-known works of classic literature is self-insert fanfiction where the author hangs out with his favorite poet and is guided on his journey of discovery by a Manic Pixie Dream Girl version of a woman he met twice.” —“Failure pile in a sadness bowl,” Mister-Smalls, Tumblr, February 2014
Contributed By Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14)
Dante for fun, Illustrated Children’s Books
“When we got to the gift-shop, we discovered an improbable set of children’s picture books that retell Dante for young people: it’s called Dante for fun and it comes in three volumes (naturally): Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.” –Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing, February 18, 2014
Contributed by Gabrielle E. Orsi, Ph.D.
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