Honors World Literature Students Delve into Dante (By Paula Priour, English Instructor)
The Sophomore Honors World Literature class is embarking on a journey through hell, though this is not intended as a commentary on any potential unpleasantness happening in Semester II. In our annual visit to the world of the Italian Renaissance, students will be immersed in the vision of hell from Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the first of three sections of his epic poem Commedia, where he also envisions Purgatorio and Paradiso.
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Our reading includes extensive cultural study in preparation for the actual reading, individually-researched projects and presentations, and culminates in a field trip to the UT Austin collections in the Harry Ransom center (HRC), where students will be introduced to an actual 1363 manuscript of the Inferno. Staff at the HRC will also school students on the ancient processes of generating manuscripts, and how modern scholars find, authenticate, use and preserve them.
Students will also create their own artistic representations to present to the class.
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