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Dante in Mad Men

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Vulture.com, October 25, 2012

Contributed by Rebecca Ruquist


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Why Is Don Draper Reading The Inferno? by Aisha Harris

"A few photos from the filming of the sixth season of Mad Men hit the web today, and one of them showed Don Draper indulging in a not-so-light beach read alongside his wife, Megan. The book? Dante's Inferno. The version in Don's possession is John Ciardi's English translation--specifically, the paperback version, which was first published in 1964. (The hardcover came out a decade before.) Ciardi's version remains highly respected and is still in print. So why is Don reading it? And when?" [...]

Slate.com, October 25, 2012

Contributed by Steve Bartus (Bowdoin, '07)

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Posted by Arielle Saiber on October 25, 2012 4:32 PM |

This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’s “Dante’s Divine Comedy” course, has been built to archive occurrences of Dante and his works in popular and contemporary culture of the twentieth century and beyond. The site catalogs a wide range of Dante "sightings": from the cursory to the extensive, and from a place of superficial knowledge of Dante and his works to deep familiarity with them. We leave to the readers the opportunity to judge the nature of each citing, and note the frequency of certain themes over others. The goals are twofold: 1) to provide a central access point for said references; and 2) to offer data that students and scholars of Dante can use to think about the Nachleben (“afterlife”) of Dante’s works in relation to reception theory, resonance, and cultural studies.

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