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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... fictions and warns him to be less credulous . But credulity may be feigned . Licentiousness can masquerade as patience or even piety simply by asserting that a god is the irresistible cause of our pas- sions . Divine compulsion ...
... fictions and warns him to be less credulous . But credulity may be feigned . Licentiousness can masquerade as patience or even piety simply by asserting that a god is the irresistible cause of our pas- sions . Divine compulsion ...
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... fiction in which a divinity appears is therefore less like a novel than like a forgery ( say , the Donation of Constantine ) which , if taken for true , becomes an immediate constituent of the " reality " within which people see their ...
... fiction in which a divinity appears is therefore less like a novel than like a forgery ( say , the Donation of Constantine ) which , if taken for true , becomes an immediate constituent of the " reality " within which people see their ...
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... fiction draws the boundary anew , even if only by retracing the lines temporarily fixed in extra - literary ... fictional world and the forces of the real one , so that each mythological figure will be translat- able without reference to ...
... fiction draws the boundary anew , even if only by retracing the lines temporarily fixed in extra - literary ... fictional world and the forces of the real one , so that each mythological figure will be translat- able without reference to ...
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... fictions . This circular acquisition of meaning is no doubt a special case of the hermeneutic circle , and it implies ... fiction itself for poets , for characters in poems , and for readers outside them . Cupid plays so many roles in so ...
... fictions . This circular acquisition of meaning is no doubt a special case of the hermeneutic circle , and it implies ... fiction itself for poets , for characters in poems , and for readers outside them . Cupid plays so many roles in so ...
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... fiction and , as artist , to abide the answer . I ignore , therefore , or rather use only for contrast , the myriad works of art in every age that use Cupid ornamentally , frivolously , or facilely . What kind of works are left ...
... fiction and , as artist , to abide the answer . I ignore , therefore , or rather use only for contrast , the myriad works of art in every age that use Cupid ornamentally , frivolously , or facilely . What kind of works are left ...
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