Divine Justice a) Watch a film entitled “God on Trial”: b) Write a full 4 pages of critical reflection on the presentation: what is your position on the issue of divine justice (you could use one of the arguments presented in the film)? How would you support your position? Are there any counterarguments? If so, […]
Identify and explain another crux in the poem, selected from somewhere between Cantos VI and XXV. Find a particular moment of apparent ambiguity, ambivalence, and tension – a “crossroads” at which the reader must choose a direction to continue
Identifying Critical Cruxes: Engaging Ambiguity, Ambivalence, & Tension Much if not most academic writing involves the reasoned interpretation of texts, and such interpretation requires skill in distinguishing between dimensions of meaning that are clear, obvious, and straightforward and those that are more difficult, perplexing, or obscure. The interpretation of literary texts, in particular, often demands […]