Comedy, Book One: Archival Resurrections
jun 2020 · Wipf and Stock Publishers
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Comedy is a philosophical poem for the twenty-first century inspired by Dante’s Commedia. It can be read as an ironic dream or fantasy that addresses the democratic idea. Book One, Archival Resurrections, explores the transindividual nature of human thought, which autonomously expands while it passes through different minds in historical time. On a walk in Seattle, the Narrator encounters his dead teacher, who becomes his guide through a world inside his own head where he encounters people from his personal past and past philosophers, poets, and statesmen, including Dante, Christine de Pizan, Spinoza, William Blake, Jefferson, Hamilton, Sally Hemings, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Marx, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, and others. Part of the poem takes place in a library in the shape of an inverted cone, the antithesis of Dante’s purgatory. Later, under the assumption that imagination is topological or plastic, there are visitations to Blake’s cottage in Felpham, Lincoln’s White House, Marx’s London, and Wilde’s and Joyce’s Dublin. Joyce’s Volta cinema is the gateway to Book Two, entitled Cinematic Revolutions, which will envision the twentieth century through its signature aesthetic form. Book Three, as yet untitled, will explore lived cityscapes as forms of life that gestate in themselves different possibilities for the future.
Comedy is a philosophical poem for the twenty-first century inspired by Dante’s Commedia. It can be read as an ironic dream or fantasy that addresses the democratic idea. Book One, Archival Resurrections, explores the transindividual nature of human thought, which autonomously expands while it pa...
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Patrick McGee is Emeritus Professor and was formerly William A. Read Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. He is the author of nine previous books on literary topics, including the recent Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce. He currently lives in Seattle.
Patrick McGee is Emeritus Professor and was formerly William A. Read Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. He is the author of nine previous books on literary topics, including the recent Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo,...
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