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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... begins Plotinus in Enneads 3.5 , " a god , a demon or a passion of the mind ? Or is it , perhaps , sometimes to be thought of as a god or demon and sometimes merely as an experience ? " The first of Plotinus's ques- tions , " What is ...
... begins Plotinus in Enneads 3.5 , " a god , a demon or a passion of the mind ? Or is it , perhaps , sometimes to be thought of as a god or demon and sometimes merely as an experience ? " The first of Plotinus's ques- tions , " What is ...
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... begins with attempts to refute or explain away the divinity of Homer's gods and why biblical prophets condemn false prophets without asking whether they are true or untrue to life . A divinity claims to be more real than life ; it ...
... begins with attempts to refute or explain away the divinity of Homer's gods and why biblical prophets condemn false prophets without asking whether they are true or untrue to life . A divinity claims to be more real than life ; it ...
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... begin by explaining what justifies this omission . The term " poetic theology " owes much of its present currency to art historians like Edgar Wind who find its ideas illustrated in the great works of High Renaissance mythological art ...
... begin by explaining what justifies this omission . The term " poetic theology " owes much of its present currency to art historians like Edgar Wind who find its ideas illustrated in the great works of High Renaissance mythological art ...
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... begins again ; " Quis sit Amor ? " becomes " Verus quid sit Amor ? " — depersonifying love by shifting to the neuter pronoun . In truth , Alciati con- cludes , " Love is pleasing work , wantoness in idleness , and its sign is a punic ...
... begins again ; " Quis sit Amor ? " becomes " Verus quid sit Amor ? " — depersonifying love by shifting to the neuter pronoun . In truth , Alciati con- cludes , " Love is pleasing work , wantoness in idleness , and its sign is a punic ...
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