Monday, April 30, 2012

Holocaust Literature

During the week of April 30, we will be looking at the Holocaust literature in our text:  from Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi, from Night by Elie Wiesel, and "When in Early Summer" by Nelly Sachs.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Dante's Inferno

We'll be reading from Dante's Inferno after the April break.  You'll find the text here. Please read Cantos I, III, V, and XXXIV. It's a challenging and amusing text once you get in the groove with it.  You can read about Dante's life here to put the text in context.  Here are the contents of the Divine Comedy for the ambitious among us!

Below is a summary of some of those rings of hell:




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