Date of Award

12-4-2001

Document Type

Thesis

Department

English

First Advisor

Dr. Samuel Smith

Abstract

The questions brought to a text define the reading of it, questions both invited by the author and assumed by the reader. Dante's Divine Comedy opens with a remarkable ambiguity that calls for an investigation of the questions being brought to the poem:

Midway along the journey of our life
I woke to find myself in a dark wood,
For I had wandered off from the straight path. (Inf 1.1-3)1

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