The Poetic Theology of Love: Cupid in Renaissance LiteratureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1986 - 212 This book argues that current criticism tends to take the mythology of love either too innocently or too skeptically and therefore distorts the complex roles played by the god of love in longer narrative poems and discursive works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. |
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... allegory and poetic theology has taught us to suspect it even in theory . E. H. Gombrich has argued , for example ... allegory have been concerned to break down C. S. Lewis's distinction between allegory as representation of the facts of ...
... allegory and poetic theology has taught us to suspect it even in theory . E. H. Gombrich has argued , for example ... allegory have been concerned to break down C. S. Lewis's distinction between allegory as representation of the facts of ...
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... allegory " that it does not specify the locus of its action as psychic or cosmic , and Angus Fletcher argues for the demonic aspect of all allegory . What used to be seen , and often disparaged , as only a mode of representation has in ...
... allegory " that it does not specify the locus of its action as psychic or cosmic , and Angus Fletcher argues for the demonic aspect of all allegory . What used to be seen , and often disparaged , as only a mode of representation has in ...
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... allegory or poetic theology . Not yet suicidal , Seneca cannot question the genuineness of Nero's belief in Cupid , but only its veracity . Therefore he speaks as if Nero were a victim of popular and poetic fictions and warns him to be ...
... allegory or poetic theology . Not yet suicidal , Seneca cannot question the genuineness of Nero's belief in Cupid , but only its veracity . Therefore he speaks as if Nero were a victim of popular and poetic fictions and warns him to be ...
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... Allegory of Love , but I do not claim that the texts treated in this book constitute a tradition in themselves or that every author knew or was influenced by the authors who precede him in my sequence . I do claim that these texts ...
... Allegory of Love , but I do not claim that the texts treated in this book constitute a tradition in themselves or that every author knew or was influenced by the authors who precede him in my sequence . I do claim that these texts ...
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... allegories . Rising prestige of the classics helped to transvalue all the gods , but especially Amor or Cupid , who also benefited from the centrality of love in Christian theology and from the ambiguity of the common nouns from which ...
... allegories . Rising prestige of the classics helped to transvalue all the gods , but especially Amor or Cupid , who also benefited from the centrality of love in Christian theology and from the ambiguity of the common nouns from which ...
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Strona 140 - The meanes, therefore, which unto us is lent Him to behold, is on his workes to looke, Which he hath made in beauty excellent, And in the same, as in a brasen booke, To reade enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse, which his beautie doth declare ; For all thats good is beautifull and faire.
Strona 180 - Yet is he nought but parting of the breath; Ne ought to see, but like a shade to weene, Unbodied, unsoul'd, unheard, unseene...
Strona 57 - Appresso questo sonetto apparve a me una mirabile visione, ne la quale io vidi cose che mi fecero proporre di non dire più di questa benedetta infino a tanto che io potesse più degnamente trattare di lei.
Strona 181 - twas from mine he took desires Enough to undo the amorous world. From me he took his sighs and tears, From thee his pride and cruelty; From me his languishments and fears, And every killing dart from thee.
Strona 145 - Faire Venus sonne, that with thy cruell dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove, That glorious fire it kindled in his hart...
Strona 137 - For love is Lord of truth and loialtie, Lifting himselfe out of the lowly dust On golden plumes up to the purest skie...
Strona 192 - You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.
Strona 57 - E di venire a ciò io studio quanto posso, sì com'ella sae veracemente. Sì che, se piacere sarà di colui a cui tutte le cose vivono, che la mia vita duri per alquanti anni, io spero di dicer di lei quello che mai non fue detto d'alcuna.