SOURCE: "Comedy and Modernity: Dante's Hell," in Modern Language Notes, Vol. CII, No. 5, December, 1987, pp. 1043-58.
In his essay, Harrison demonstrates that Guido's monologue in Inferno XXVII expresses Dante's comic world-view, in which earthly life is viewed as Hell.
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