Dante Today

Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture

The Eleventh Circle of Hell

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“Hi. We are a married couple, let’s call us Sally and Jimmy. We’re going to write about the messed up insane treatment my family receives from my extended family – mother, father, sister + son. This is Jimmy, by the way.

“Tonight, I was at work. Sally picked me up and was crying. Our car had broken down at a friend’s house last night.

“This morning was hell; our son was very hard to deal with getting ready for school. then there’s the guilt my mom throws in about getting the kid a haircut. She paid for my sister’s son’s haircut; took him there, too. She didn’t offer the same for our son.” — TYPEOGRAPHIE, The Eleventh Circle, September 4, 2014

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Nine Levels of Work Hell

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“Mind-numbing meetings, overflowing inboxes and urgent projects that require you to drop everything–do ever feel like parts of your workday are a personalized form of hell? If you’re frustrated by ineffective work processes–and complaining to coworkers over drinks–you’re not alone … After surveying approximately 1,000 AtTask.com users, Nielson identified nine levels of “work hell,” those things that irritate people most. He shares the levels and offers solutions for eliminating the suffering.” — Stephanie Vozza, Fast Company, February 20, 2014

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McSweeney’s: “The Nine Circles of Adjunct Hell.” (2011)

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Internet TendencyMcSweeney’s Internet Tendency is the daily humor website of McSweeney’s Publishing, a publishing house founded by David Eggers in San Francisco. Dan Moreau of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency has written this satirical piece referencing the nine circles of Dante’s hell.

Among the circles are: Paper Grading, Classroom Observation, and Parking.

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Contributed by Humberto González Chávez.

 

“Failure Pile in a Sadness Bowl”: Dante as Inspiration for Creative Writers

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FailurePile“If you ever feel bad about your own writing, just remember that one of the world’s most well-known works of classic literature is self-insert fanfiction where the author hangs out with his favorite poet and is guided on his journey of discovery by a Manic Pixie Dream Girl version of a woman he met twice.”    —“Failure pile in a sadness bowl,” Mister-Smalls, Tumblr, February 2014

Contributed By Victoria Rea-Wilson (Bowdoin, ’14)

“Kindred Spirits: A Juxtaposition of Dante & Dickens”

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dante-and-scrooge“. . . I cannot recall a time when I didn’t know the story of A Christmas Carol. The images and themes have delighted or haunted me since my childhood, either in the form of the ‘Dickens Village’ adventure at the mall or the hundredth or so viewing of the Muppet version. (Michael Caine, you will always be my Scrooge.) So when I studied Dante’s Commedia in college, it was no leap for me to recognize the countless similarities between the two stories. I would write C.C. in the margin every time I came across another bit of Dickens in Dante. At long last, I can pitch some these ideas to the wider world.”     –Kathyrn (blogger), Through a Glass Brightly, December 18, 2013

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

How to Cite

Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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