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Conclusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2022

Alison Cornish
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New York University
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The chapters in this book are all readings, or interpretations, of key characters and episodes in the Divine Comedy where it can be shown that what is at stake is a kind of faith. What has been argued is that reading itself is an act of faith, a willingness to trust not only in the individual human author or narrator, but in the larger story in which all truthful, good faith narratives somehow fit. A different faith, like a superseded hypothesis in science, is another way of approaching a single truth and it can be read, charitably, as such.

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Believing in Dante
Truth in Fiction
, pp. 244 - 253
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Conclusion
  • Alison Cornish, New York University
  • Book: Believing in Dante
  • Online publication: 10 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091923.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Alison Cornish, New York University
  • Book: Believing in Dante
  • Online publication: 10 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091923.008
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  • Conclusion
  • Alison Cornish, New York University
  • Book: Believing in Dante
  • Online publication: 10 June 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009091923.008
Available formats
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