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"The New Yorker," April 21, 1997

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Posted on September 15, 2006

Carol Vogel, "After Artwork's Fiery Demise, A New and Impenitent 'Hell' "

New York Times, July 22, 2004
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F20712FD355E0C718EDDAE0894DC404482

Posted on September 15, 2006

Brian Wingfeld, "An Inferno of Vehicles Expands a City's Circle of Suffering"

The New York Times, September 5, 2005
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50F13FF3E550C768CDDA00894DD404482

Posted on September 15, 2006

Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders, Dante's "Divine Comedy" (2004-2005)

birk19.jpg

"Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy, was adapted by Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders. In addition to rendering the language of the poem into a contemporary American English vernacular, Birk has also re-interpreted 19th century illustrator, Gustave Dore's, drawings. The text is accompanied by 71 of Birk's original lithographic images, which locate hell in contemporary, urban areas, including downtown Los Angeles."

http://www.cclarkgallery.com/multiples/birk_m.html
http://www.amazon.com/Dantes-Inferno-Marcus-Sanders/dp/0811842134/sr=1-3/qid=1159675397/ref=sr_1_3/104-3583991-1927918?ie=UTF8&s=books

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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