Dante in the Works of James Joyce, 2019.
"I’m trying to apply the interpretive style of Erich Auerbach, discussed in his work Mimesis, for the purpose of understanding how Dubliners by James Joyce relates to the Inferno cantica of the Divine Comedy by Dante. I want to understand the cases in which the goals of Joyce diverge from Dante and which cases they seem to have a common ground, and what these variations say about the historical context surrounding each of these texts. Each text takes place decades apart, and yet Joyce actively choose to utilize imagery from Inferno, thus implying a certain universality to the work of Dante. Dubliners isn’t trying to become the next Inferno, but instead employs it as a tool for understanding its own questions, such as what makes something hell? Overall, I wanted to visually represent the underlying similarities and deviations between these works of literature in an abstract illustration."
- Alisha Baldwin