FAQs

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How are you analyzing this?
I answer this on a page with this very question at the top. If you can find it, you can see how I analyzed this.

Who are Dante and Dore anyway?
You should probably do the research yourself, but I've created a page with the information. Its...somewhere here, if only I could remember.

Why did you make this site difficult to navigate?
"Wunderkammer" is German for "chamber of wonder". From Renaissance times until modern times, rooms or shops, even small cabinets, were devoted to the purpose of displaying unique artifacts. The items were arranged in ways that were surprising and always left the guests with a sense of wonder.

This is the same idea behind this site. The colored squares are left deliberately blank so you don't know where you'll go when you click on them. By wandering around the site, you uncover the pages in your own unique order. Your experience of the site will be your own. Hopefully, this will ignite your sense of wonder.

Don't worry! If you get totally lost or frustrated with the colored squares, the menu will always be on the right side of the screen.--->

Why is Dante important to me?
Because I said so. More to the point, Dante the poet is important because he produced one of the first great epics in Europe after the Dark Ages. Also, he discusses ideas that are timeless like what the afterlife is actually like, the justice of God (or any deity), the limits of human reason, and the ways our lives may define what our eternity might be like.

What is visual rhetoric?
Visual rhetoric is the study of how visual media (i.e., art, photography, television, movies, etc.) are used to not only enhance arguments but put arguments forth. What do our images say about us? What can we say with our images? These are only two of the big questions in visual rhetoric.

Isn't making a website taking the easy way out for a final project?
If you think so, try it and see for yourself. Truth is, you can work just as hard, if not harder, on creating a great website as when you're creating a great research paper. Just because it looks more fun at the end doesn't mean it was easy. It is rewarding, though. So, seriously, go out there and make one for yourself.