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Dante - Shared Study
Hi All
On the goodreads.com site they have book clubs where they read a book and discuss it ... I'm currently following though not participating in a thread about Ovid's Metamorphoses.
I was wondering if anyone would be up for something similar ...
What I propose is that we clear our schedules for the Autumn (Sept/Oct) to go through the Divine Comedy on the Edx site ( https://www.edx.org/course/the-divine-comedy-dantes-journey-to-freedom ). They have a course starting on 20th July for 8 weeks ... I propose we miss that one (too short notice) and try and all meet back for the Autumn.
In response ... could you add to this thread by expressing an interest and asking any questions that you may have.
On the goodreads.com site they have book clubs where they read a book and discuss it ... I'm currently following though not participating in a thread about Ovid's Metamorphoses.
I was wondering if anyone would be up for something similar ...
What I propose is that we clear our schedules for the Autumn (Sept/Oct) to go through the Divine Comedy on the Edx site ( https://www.edx.org/course/the-divine-comedy-dantes-journey-to-freedom ). They have a course starting on 20th July for 8 weeks ... I propose we miss that one (too short notice) and try and all meet back for the Autumn.
In response ... could you add to this thread by expressing an interest and asking any questions that you may have.
I appreciate that there's very little interest for this thread, nevertheless ... before entering the city of Dis (in Canto 9) the MOOC instructors suggest watching The Act of Killing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-349HTKhPno ... (I'm currently fortifying myself to watch it ...)
If you could hold off for like two weeks, til my High Holidays are over, I would be INCREDIBLY interested. The Divine Comedy is one of the most important works of my classic literature education. I just won't be able to give proper attention to anything til after the 22nd or 23rd.
AnonymousBystander said:I appreciate that there's very little interest for this thread, nevertheless ... before entering the city of Dis (in Canto 9) the MOOC instructors suggest watching The Act of Killing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-349HTKhPno ... (I'm currently fortifying myself to watch it ...)
I watched the film, here's what someone else thought of it http://mydante.s3.amazonaws.com/media/library/docs/Commentary%20on%20The%20Act%20of%20Killing,%20Canto%209.pdf from the MOOC course work and gives some interesting links within it. Also, Peter Dale Scott's poem Coming to Jarka https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49857/coming-to-jakarta-a-poem-about-terror was about the same subject. Although this thread is about Dante's Divine Comedy, I'll give a quote from Scott's poem since ...
II.iv
I am writing this poem
about the 1965 massacre
of Indonesians by Indonesians
which in an article ten years later
I could not publish
except in Nottingham England with
a friend Malcolm Caldwell who has since
himself been murdered
no one will say by whom but I will guess
seeing as this is
precisely poetry
the CIA's and now Peking's Cambodian
assassins the Khmer Serai
In that article I estimated
a half-million or more
killed in this period
it took Noam in a book
suppressed by its first publisher
to quote Admiral Sudomo
of the Indonesian junta
more than 500,000
I watched the film, here's what someone else thought of it http://mydante.s3.amazonaws.com/media/library/docs/Commentary%20on%20The%20Act%20of%20Killing,%20Canto%209.pdf from the MOOC course work and gives some interesting links within it. Also, Peter Dale Scott's poem Coming to Jarka https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49857/coming-to-jakarta-a-poem-about-terror was about the same subject. Although this thread is about Dante's Divine Comedy, I'll give a quote from Scott's poem since ...
II.iv
I am writing this poem
about the 1965 massacre
of Indonesians by Indonesians
which in an article ten years later
I could not publish
except in Nottingham England with
a friend Malcolm Caldwell who has since
himself been murdered
no one will say by whom but I will guess
seeing as this is
precisely poetry
the CIA's and now Peking's Cambodian
assassins the Khmer Serai
In that article I estimated
a half-million or more
killed in this period
it took Noam in a book
suppressed by its first publisher
to quote Admiral Sudomo
of the Indonesian junta
more than 500,000
