navigating beyond the old maps
Reading Dante’s Inferno as an Initiated Text To the modern literary mind, Dante’s Inferno is to Hell what Milton’s Paradise Lost is to the Fall: a poetic masterpiece that has defined, even replaced, the imagery of its biblical antecedent. …
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When considering the various manifestations of the imagination during the early Middle Ages, such as visual art, literature, folklore and visions, one notices a certain Hell-centric obsession. The Apocalypse of St. Paul was but one example of this outpouring, notable…
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The Book of Watchers within I Enoch strikes the reader as a vengeful departure from its more neutral netherworldly predecessors, its pits of fire casting doubt on the frequently maintained assertion “that there is no belief in life after death…
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Both Harvey and Castells discuss the relationship between space and socioeconomics. Harvey approaches the question through the lens of Marx’s spatial fix, examining the potential of using imperialism as a means to resolve systemic failures in capitalism. Castells considers the…
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It’s interesting that although the “German School” and the “Chicago School” are presented as discrete, as many of the scholars later associated with the early Chicago School also came from Germany and presumably were (in)formed by the same temporal milieu….
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