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Dante in Coney Island

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(Photo by Marta Lwin, 2004)

"By Thursday, nearly 30 tractor-trailers had been loaded with classic Astroland rides and driven out. There was no sign of the Scrambler, the Tilt-a-Whirl or the Mini Tea Cup. Dante's Inferno, a haunted house, stood empty and ravaged, looking more haunted than ever. The Pirate Ship was moored atop a flatbed truck, awaiting storage..."
--David W. Dunlap and Ann Farmer, "Blasting Off From the Coney Island Boardwalk"
The New York Times, January 9, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/nyregion/10astroland.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

Posted on September 15, 2006

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Purgatory Ski Resort, Durango, Colorado (now Durango Mountain Resort)

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http://www.durangomountainresort.com/index.cfm/fa/category.display/category_id/1

Contributed by Travis Arnold (Bowdoin, '01)


Now, Durango Mountain Resort

"Formerly known as Purgatory, many of the run names at Durango Mountain Resort were inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, such as Demon, Hades, Styx, and Limbo. With 300 days of sunshine and 260 inches of snow annually, however, Durango Mountain belies the imagery created by its run names."

http://www.go-colorado.com/Durango-Mountain-Resort

Contributed by Patrick Molloy


Posted on September 15, 2006

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Hell, Cayman Islands

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http://home.hiwaay.net/~brogers/Hell-Grand-Cayman/imagepages/hell-grand-cayman1.htm

Contributed by Anna Booth (Bowdoin, '08)

Posted on September 15, 2006

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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 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 of reception theory, resonance, and cultural studies.

Background Image: Domenico di Michelino, Dante and His Comedy, 1465

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