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... discourse . In the case of the damned souls , who are beyond the possibility of repenting , the recounting has no other meaning ( intention ) beyond that of a mere review of personal facts ( events ) . But in the case of those in via ...
... discourse . In the case of the damned souls , who are beyond the possibility of repenting , the recounting has no other meaning ( intention ) beyond that of a mere review of personal facts ( events ) . But in the case of those in via ...
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... discourse before the wayfarer continues to be one- dimensional . This is so because it cannot signify the ultimate truth ; the words of Francesca's discourse are empty signs , just as the " history " she relates is without " true ...
... discourse before the wayfarer continues to be one- dimensional . This is so because it cannot signify the ultimate truth ; the words of Francesca's discourse are empty signs , just as the " history " she relates is without " true ...
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... discourse that " absorbs " other texts , the poet demonstrates that at the same moment in which her discourse is revealed to be a fiction rather than a true history , the language of the poem moves in the opposite direction , from ...
... discourse that " absorbs " other texts , the poet demonstrates that at the same moment in which her discourse is revealed to be a fiction rather than a true history , the language of the poem moves in the opposite direction , from ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Misreadings in Inferno XX and Purgatorio XXI | 14 |
History to Narrative | 31 |
Copyright | |
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