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'Poets in Purgatory' Video |
Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante. |
Jane Draycott, Steve Ellis, Andrew Fitzsimons, Lorna Goodison |
17 Dec 2021 |
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‘Arriving before us’: seeing, ingenuity and imagination in Dante: Simon Gilson's Inaugural lecture |
During his inaugural lecture, Professor Gilson will show how ideas about vision and cognate faculties such as the wits and the imagination are central to Dante’s masterpiece, the Commedia. |
Simon Gilson |
22 Oct 2019 |
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Translation and Ekphrasis: Dante and the visual arts |
Ekphrasis finds words for paintings and other visual phenomena; translation finds words for other words. But how secure in this distinction, given that language has visual form, and that the visual arts can employ language-like elements? |
Robin Kirkpatrick, Jas Elsner, Matthew Reynolds, Andrew Klevan |
24 Feb 2015 |
