From Virgil to Milton
Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Epic poetry
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Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 1945
Category : Epic poetry
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Author : Cecil M. Bowra
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : C.M. Bowra
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Page : 246 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : David Quint
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691222959
Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature. He divides the history of the genre into two political traditions: the Virgilian epics of conquest and empire that take the victors' side (the Aeneid itself, Camoes's Lusíadas, Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata) and the countervailing epic of the defeated and of republican liberty (Lucan's Pharsalia, Ercilla's Araucana, and d'Aubigné's Les tragiques). These traditions produce opposing ideas of historical narrative: a linear, teleological narrative that belongs to the imperial conquerors, and an episodic and open-ended narrative identified with "romance," the story told of and by the defeated. Quint situates Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained within these rival traditions. He extends his political analysis to the scholarly revival of medieval epic in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and to Sergei Eisenstein's epic film, Alexander Nevsky. Attending both to the topical contexts of individual poems and to the larger historical development of the epic genre, Epic and Empire provides new models for exploring the relationship between ideology and literary form.
Author : Cecil Maurice Bowra
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : C M (Cecil Maurice) 1898-1971 Bowra
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
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ISBN : 9781013653513
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Author : David Quint
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2014-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691159742
Inside "Paradise Lost" opens up new readings and ways of reading Milton's epic poem by mapping out the intricacies of its narrative and symbolic designs and by revealing and exploring the deeply allusive texture of its verse. David Quint’s comprehensive study demonstrates how systematic patterns of allusion and keywords give structure and coherence both to individual books of Paradise Lost and to the overarching relationship among its books and episodes. Looking at poems within the poem, Quint provides new interpretations as he takes readers through the major subjects of Paradise Lost—its relationship to epic tradition and the Bible, its cosmology and politics, and its dramas of human choice. Quint shows how Milton radically revises the epic tradition and the Genesis story itself by arguing that it is better to create than destroy, by telling the reader to make love, not war, and by appearing to ratify Adam’s decision to fall and die with his wife. The Milton of this Paradise Lost is a Christian humanist who believes in the power and freedom of human moral agency. As this indispensable guide and reference takes us inside the poetry of Milton’s masterpiece, Paradise Lost reveals itself in new formal configurations and unsuspected levels of meaning and design.
Author : Henry Walcott Boynton
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Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : William Benson
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 33,4 MB
Release : 1739
Category : Poetry
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Author : Maggie Kilgour
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0199589437
Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.