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Andreev, Michail. "Dante in Russia." Semicerchio: Rivista di Poesia Comparata 36 (2007): 29-31.

Anspaugh, Kelly. "Dante on His Head: Heart of Darkness." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 27, no. 2 (Summer 1995): 135-148.

Banerjee, Ron D. K. "Dante Through the Looking Glass: Rossetti, Pound, and Eliot." Comparative Literature 24 (Spring 1972): 136-49.

Berg, Christine G. "'Light from a Hill of Carbon Paper Dolls': Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills and Dante's Inferno." Modern Language Studies 29, no. 2 (Fall 1999): 1-19.

Biddick, Kathleen. "Dante on the Orient(alsim) Express." The American Historical Review 105, no.4 (October 2000): 1-40.

Blum, Kerstin. "Ralph Ellison and the African American Inferno." SORAC Journal of African Studies: Society of Research on African Cultures 2 (November 2002): 33-42.

Boitani, Piero. "Moby-Dante?." In Dante for the New Millennium, 435-450. New York, NY: Fordham UP, 2003.

Cambon, Glauco. "Dante's Presence in American Literature." Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society 118 (2000): 217-242.

Cavanagh, Michael. "Seamus Heaney's Dante: Making a Party of Oneself." Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 12 (Spring 1993): 7-15.

Daigle, Marsha Ann. "Dante's Divine Comedy and C. S. Lewis's Narnia Chronicles." Christianity and Literature 34, no. 4 (Summer 1985): 41-58.

Dasenbrock, Reed Way. "Paradiso ma non troppo: The Place of the Lyric Dante in the Late Cantos of Ezra Pound." Comparative Literature 57, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 45-60.

De Laurentiis, Eileen Jones. "The Influence of Dante on T. S. Eliot." Studi dell'Istituto Linguistico 7 (1984): 322-332.

Evans, Annette. "Allusion as structure: Vittorini and Dante." Symposium (Washington, D.C.) 34 (Spring 1980): 13-28.

Gaudenzi, Cosetta. "Dante's Introduction to the United States as Investigated in Matthew Pearl's The Dante Club." Italian Culture 26 (2008): 85-103.

Giuriceo, Marie. "The Virgil-Dante Relationship in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Fiction." Studies in Medievalism 2, no. 2 (Spring 1983): 67-79.

Hawkins, Peter. "Dante's Afterlife." In Dante: A Brief History, 131-165. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

Hays, Peter L. "Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Dante's La vita nuova." Explicator 46, no. 4 (Summer 1988): 49-50.

Helsinger, Howard. "Joyce and Dante." ELH 35 (December 1968): 591-605.

Hough, Graham. "Dante and Eliot." Critical Quarterly 16 (Winter 1974): 293-305.

Jackel, Brad. "Re-Painting Hell: Conrad's Infernal Imagery." Conradiana: A Journal of Joseph Conrad Studies 33, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 107-128.

Jacoff, Rachel. "Merrill and Dante." In James Merrill: Essays in Criticism, 145-158. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983.

Kenner, Hugh. "Pound and the American Dante." In Dante e Pound, 35-38. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 1998.

Kollman, Judith J. "Charles Williams's All Hallows' Eve: A Modern Adaptation of Dante's Commedia." Studies in Medievalism 3, no. 3-4 (January 1991): 291-305.

Lyday, Lance. "Sanctuary: Faulkner's Inferno." Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Culture 35, no. 3 (Summer 1982): 243-253.

McDougal, Stuart Y. "T. S. Eliot's Metaphysical Dante." In Dante among the Moderns, 57-81. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1985.

McDougal, Stuart Y. Dante among the Moderns. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1985.

Murphy, John J. "Appropriating Dante's World: Willa Cather's American Medievalism." Fu Jen Studies: Literature & Linguistics 35 (2003): 97-113.

Page, Thos. N. Dante and His Influence: Studies. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat, 1969.

Paolucci, Anne et al. Dante's Influence on American Writers, 1776-1976. New York: Griffon House for Dante Soc. of Amer, 1977.

Paolucci, Anne. "Dante's Influence on American Writers 1776-1976." In Dante: Beyond the Commedia, 33-71. Wilmington, DE: Griffon, for Bagehot Council, 2004.

Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas. "Dante's Influence on the Great Dream of Gerhart Hauptmann." Forum Italicum 2 (1968): 23-33.

Reynolds, Mary T. "The Dantean Design of Joyce's Dubliners." In The Seventh of Joyce, 124-130. Bloomington; Brighton: Indiana UP; Harvester, 1982.

Singh, G. "Dante and Pound." Critical Quarterly 17 (Winter 1975): 311-28.

Spina, Giorgio, and Paul Priest. "The Influence of Dante on George MacDonald." North Wind: Journal of the George MacDonald Society 9 (1990): 15-36.

Testa, Bart. "Dante and Cinema: Film across a Chasm." In Dante, Cinema and Television, 189-212. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2004.

Verduin, Kathleen. "Edith Wharton, Adultery, and the Reception of Francesca da Rimini." Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society 122 (2004): 95-136.

Verduin, Kathleen. "Hemingway's Dante: A Note on Across the River and into the Trees." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 57, no. 4 (December 1985): 633-640.

Vogel, Lucy. "Symbolist's Inferno: Blok and Dante." The Russian Review 29 (January 1970): 38-51.

Wagstaff, Christopher. "Dante in the Cinema or Dante and the Cinema?" In Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts, 163-175. Aldershot, England: Continuum, 2007.

Ward, Catherine C. "Gloria Naylor's Linden Hills: A Modern Inferno." Contemporary Literature 28, no. 1 (Spring 1987): 67-81.

Ward, Jerry W., Jr. "The System of Dante's Hell: Underworlds of Art and Liberation." Griot: Official Journal of the Southern Conference on Afro-American Studies, Inc 6, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 58-64.

Welle, John P. "Fellini's Use of Dante in La dolce vita." Studies in Medievalism 2, no. 3 (Summer 1983): 53-66.

This experimental website, inspired by students of Arielle Saiber’sDante’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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