ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Cultural Anthropology, Everyman
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Distinguish between two dantes: dante the pilgim universal everyman , historical individual, dante the poet the narrator, author of poem. Journey of conversion: someone who is morally lost and must find who he is. Poetics of conversion: the pilgrim"s view is much like our own view of history and of ourselves: partial, perhaps confused, still in the making. But the poet"s view is far different, for it is global and comprehensive, the total view of a man who looks at the world, his neighbourhood and indeed himself with all the detachment of a cultural anthropologist. The process of the pilgrim, is transformation of the problematic and humanistic to certain an transcendent . Invocation of the muses aligning himself with pre-christian texts, also an assertion of memory. She-wolf scares him most (represents appetite for more) during his ascent up the mountain towards the good light.
