Evolving Mediums: Over the Garden Wall and the Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri’s transcendental work the Divine Comedy is masterfully appropriated in this cartoon mini-series titled Over the Garden Wall in order to explore the issue of suicidal ideation and depression while contradicting Dante. Through different textual and conceptual appropriations, the show i...

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Main Author:	Doughty, Karissa
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Language:	English
Published:	Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2019
Subjects:	Dante Over the Garden Wall Beatrice Appropriation Divine Comedy Other Film and Media Studies
Online Access:	https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3577 https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5042&context=etd

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spelling	ndltd-ETSU-oai-dc.etsu.edu-etd-50422021-09-15T17:13:15Z Evolving Mediums: Over the Garden Wall and the Divine Comedy Doughty, Karissa Dante Alighieri’s transcendental work the Divine Comedy is masterfully appropriated in this cartoon mini-series titled Over the Garden Wall in order to explore the issue of suicidal ideation and depression while contradicting Dante. Through different textual and conceptual appropriations, the show invokes the imagery of the Divine Comedy while creating an ending that is the complete opposite of its source text, turning Dante on his head and becoming an anti-Divine Comedy. The different characters of the epic poem are reimagined for these purposes, and the result is a work of art that makes the personal into the universal. 2019-05-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3577 https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5042&context=etd Copyright by the authors. Electronic Theses and Dissertations eng Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Dante Over the Garden Wall Beatrice Appropriation Divine Comedy Other Film and Media Studies
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description	Dante Alighieri’s transcendental work the Divine Comedy is masterfully appropriated in this cartoon mini-series titled Over the Garden Wall in order to explore the issue of suicidal ideation and depression while contradicting Dante. Through different textual and conceptual appropriations, the show invokes the imagery of the Divine Comedy while creating an ending that is the complete opposite of its source text, turning Dante on his head and becoming an anti-Divine Comedy. The different characters of the epic poem are reimagined for these purposes, and the result is a work of art that makes the personal into the universal.
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Evolving Mediums: Over the Garden Wall and the Divine Comedy

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