“…the literary critic Walter Benn Michaels went so far as to suggest that the beauty and difficulty of watching “The Wire” in English — the multifarious 21st-century English of Baltimore detectives and drug dealers — compares with that of reading Dante in 14th-century Italian.” [. . .] –Wyatt Mason, The New York Times, March 15, 2010
Peter Nathaniel Malae, “What We Are” (2010)
The protagonist of the novel, Paul, names a book of poetry after his girlfriend, Beatrice La Dulce Shaliqua Schneck “and after Dante’s muse, presumably because he, too, was a poet who made his fame in hell.” [. . .] –Fiona Maazel, The New York Times, March 18, 2010
Minos Papas, “Shutterbug” (2010)
“…Inspired by Dante’s Inferno and Greek mythology (the writer and director, Minos Papas, was raised in Cyprus), Shutterbug invites us on a listless, photographic odyssey through a nighttime Manhattan populated by the usual human detritus. Lured by flickering sightings of a lovely young woman, Alex searches for his muse in the vicinity of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway while the film coughs up a succession of After Hours-beholden characters to fill his reality-starved lens: a chatty rat catcher, a wheezing psychic, a creepy pimp peddling under-age treats. The only suspense lies in wondering which one will beat him up first.” [. . .] –Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times, March 19, 2010
Dante’s Internet: “Serious Business”
“In the year or so since I started blogging, I’ve found myself ingrained into a number of internet communities which will here remain unnamed. But I have stumbled a cross an unwritten set of rules governing these communities, and someone took these general principles and fashioned them into this handy ‘Dante’s Inferno’ type chart.” […] -Paul Tassi, Unreality Magazine, February 18, 2010
Contributed by Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14)
Luke Rosenau on the role of Beatrice in the Comedy
“… In the hopes of providing Beatrice with as much agency as possible and reversing this unfortunate reversal of the original narrative arc, here is a remix of some clips from the trailer set to Beatrice’s speech via Virgil in Inferno II (verses 61-73). The audio is a reading by Lino Pertile from the Princeton Dante Project. And it was Professor Teodolinda Barolini’s concern over the game’s impact on the reception of Dante that sparked the remix in the first place.” –Luke Rosenau
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ymsJXvSn0 (retrieved on March 12, 2010)
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