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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... 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 justifies self - indulgence , as a ...
... 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 justifies self - indulgence , as a ...
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... less trivial and critically unprofitable . There is an opposite danger , however ; the distinction may seem too easy . If , as I have argued , the divinities of poetic theology can be understood too complacently or credulously by those ...
... less trivial and critically unprofitable . There is an opposite danger , however ; the distinction may seem too easy . If , as I have argued , the divinities of poetic theology can be understood too complacently or credulously by those ...
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... less arbitrary than it seems . Cupid's roles in all the arts are so various that it makes little sense to speak of them all together as constituting a tradition . His tradition would be nearly coextensive with the Western Tradition ...
... less arbitrary than it seems . Cupid's roles in all the arts are so various that it makes little sense to speak of them all together as constituting a tradition . His tradition would be nearly coextensive with the Western Tradition ...
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... less austere ones to an insistence that images are not to be taken as true representations . According to the Council of Trent , for example , " If ever the histories and stories of holy Scripture should happen to be expressed or de ...
... less austere ones to an insistence that images are not to be taken as true representations . According to the Council of Trent , for example , " If ever the histories and stories of holy Scripture should happen to be expressed or de ...
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... less compromising answer to the question " What is Love ? " like that once attributed to Dante : " Io dico che Amor non e sustanza , / ne cosa corporal ch'abbia figura " ( I say that Love is not a substance or a thing that has bodily ...
... less compromising answer to the question " What is Love ? " like that once attributed to Dante : " Io dico che Amor non e sustanza , / ne cosa corporal ch'abbia figura " ( I say that Love is not a substance or a thing that has bodily ...
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