Thesiss

Since the publication of Faust, a Tragedy in 1832, critics have lauded Goethe's masterwork with innumerable accolades. C. G. Jung, for example, refers to it as "the grandest work of alchemy." Faust, Part One, however, contains only ten lines dealing with alchemy, while alchemica…

Most of Dante's literary criticism has traditionally been rooted in the cultural fabric of Christian and Classical scholarship. Not enough has been said about non-Christian influences on Dante and more specifically, about his interaction with the deep and significant presence of…

Dante’s Divine Comedy plots a literary history of epic poetry from the apparitions and mythologies of Homer through those of Vergil, Statius, and even St. Augustine. While Dante employs the standard conventions of epic poetry, he manipulates these standards in various ways, such…