Surf these sites: "Dante''s vs. Niven & Pournelle''s Inferno" -- "Holding up a great literary work of the Italian Renaissance to a pale, modern imitation, though I must say Niven and Pournelle are a hell of a lot more readable than Dante." Essay on the pastiche by two twentieth-century "hard" science-fiction writers. "Infernal Incipits: The Poetics of the New" -- An excerpt from the book The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante, by Teodolinda Barolini (Princeton University Press, 1992), with annotations in hypertext. "Narrative and Style in Lower Hell" -- An excerpt from the book The Undivine Comedy: Detheologizing Dante, by Teodolinda Barolini (Princeton University Press, 1992), with annotations in hypertext. Dante, Chaucer, and the Currency of the Word: Money, Images, and Reference in Late Medieval Poetry -- Examines, among other things, " . . . the numerology at work in Dante''s Paradiso, the problematics of imagery in 30 cantos, and how Chaucer''s theory of mediation saved him from the fate of Narcissus." Lectura Dantis -- " . . . is a journal of Dante research and interpretation. It is published twice a year, in the Fall and in the Spring, by the Italian Program, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Virginia." This online version of the print journal includes numerous critical texts selected from the magazine''s past issues, with a searchable database.
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