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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... force or divine agent of universal concord . The idea goes back to Empedocles , but Philosophy ends her song with a pessimistic , Judaeo - Christian twist : Hie [ Amor ] sancto populos quoque iunctos foedere continet , hie et conjugii ...
... force or divine agent of universal concord . The idea goes back to Empedocles , but Philosophy ends her song with a pessimistic , Judaeo - Christian twist : Hie [ Amor ] sancto populos quoque iunctos foedere continet , hie et conjugii ...
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... foster or feed it , it declines , and its force quickly dwindles and dies . Nero : I believe him to be the chief source of life , through which pleasure takes its being . He is immortal , since pleasing The Poetic Theology of Love 15.
... foster or feed it , it declines , and its force quickly dwindles and dies . Nero : I believe him to be the chief source of life , through which pleasure takes its being . He is immortal , since pleasing The Poetic Theology of Love 15.
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... forces of sex and aggression as human beings experience them in nature and their own lives . " Orthodox monotheists ... force of sex in the sense of " represent it accurately " ; she justifies it . It might be objected that these are ...
... forces of sex and aggression as human beings experience them in nature and their own lives . " Orthodox monotheists ... force of sex in the sense of " represent it accurately " ; she justifies it . It might be objected that these are ...
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... forces of sex and aggression as human beings experience them , " he apparently assumes a one - to - one correspondence between the deities of a fictional world and the forces of the real one , so that each mythological figure will be ...
... forces of sex and aggression as human beings experience them , " he apparently assumes a one - to - one correspondence between the deities of a fictional world and the forces of the real one , so that each mythological figure will be ...
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... force of love . Therefore he demythologizes Amore by explaining that what he had thought a god is really just an emotion . Later he will work out the conditions under which his emotion is a trace of providential design and therefore a ...
... force of love . Therefore he demythologizes Amore by explaining that what he had thought a god is really just an emotion . Later he will work out the conditions under which his emotion is a trace of providential design and therefore a ...
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