Date of Submission
Spring 2014
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literature; Arabic
Project Advisor 1
Joseph Luzzi
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This project compares and contrasts Dante's Divine Comedy with the earlier, 11th c. Syrian text, The Epistle of Forgiveness by the grammarian Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri. The primary focus of this examination lies within the characterization strategies of the two texts, as well as the similar themes which run through their visions of the afterlife. By raising these ideas now, this project hopes to rekindle the discourse surrounding the comparison of the two texts. With that in mind, it also looks at areas other than the two mentioned above that are comparable between the two to provide openings for further scholarship.
Open Access Agreement
On-Campus only
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Cullinan, Elizabeth J., "The Divine Comedies: A Comparative Analysis of Characterization in al-Maʿarri’s Epistle of Forgiveness and Dante’s Divine Comedy" (2014). Senior Projects Spring 2014. 186.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2014/186
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