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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... human experience . In medieval and Renaissance literature , however , we meet love as a god or demon at every turn and must entertain all three alternatives . But how seriously must we entertain them ? This question about poetic ...
... human experience . In medieval and Renaissance literature , however , we meet love as a god or demon at every turn and must entertain all three alternatives . But how seriously must we entertain them ? This question about poetic ...
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... human emotion — a divine cause or a human effect ? Both alternatives inhere in Eros or Cupid or Amor — his names are usually interchangeable — who began his long literary career in Hesiod as a deified abstraction and remained throughout ...
... human emotion — a divine cause or a human effect ? Both alternatives inhere in Eros or Cupid or Amor — his names are usually interchangeable — who began his long literary career in Hesiod as a deified abstraction and remained throughout ...
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... human souls , where it produces sacred marriages and true friends . The love that usually rules men's souls , however the love that Plotinus would call " a passion of the mind " —does not produce such happy effects , never rules the ...
... human souls , where it produces sacred marriages and true friends . The love that usually rules men's souls , however the love that Plotinus would call " a passion of the mind " —does not produce such happy effects , never rules the ...
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Cupid in Renaissance Literature Thomas Hyde. what relation persists between divine and human love . She simply teaches that the two not be confused so that the prevalence of unholy marriages and false friends will not convince men that ...
Cupid in Renaissance Literature Thomas Hyde. what relation persists between divine and human love . She simply teaches that the two not be confused so that the prevalence of unholy marriages and false friends will not convince men that ...
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... human race . May this god bear before me the wedding torches and with his fire yoke Poppaea to my bed . ) To counter Nero's identification of his own passion with the Love that rules the heavens , Seneca the philosopher goes further ...
... human race . May this god bear before me the wedding torches and with his fire yoke Poppaea to my bed . ) To counter Nero's identification of his own passion with the Love that rules the heavens , Seneca the philosopher goes further ...
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