Degree Name
MA (Master of Arts)
Program
English
Date of Award
5-2019
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Josh Reid
Committee Members
Thomas Crofts, Michael Cody, Matthew Holtmeier
Abstract
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.
Document Type
Thesis - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Doughty, Karissa, "Evolving Mediums: Over the Garden Wall and the Divine Comedy" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3577. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3577
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.