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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... reading Anna Karenina or Lady Chat- terley's Lover , we can eliminate all but the last alternative and assume that love is a human experience . In medieval and Renaissance literature , however , we meet love as a god or demon at every ...
... reading Anna Karenina or Lady Chat- terley's Lover , we can eliminate all but the last alternative and assume that love is a human experience . In medieval and Renaissance literature , however , we meet love as a god or demon at every ...
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... readers and poets ( who " read " the tradition whenever they write a poem ) need to tell the difference too . Other- wise they risk errors analogous to those of literary characters : either too skepti- cally spurning poetic theology as ...
... readers and poets ( who " read " the tradition whenever they write a poem ) need to tell the difference too . Other- wise they risk errors analogous to those of literary characters : either too skepti- cally spurning poetic theology as ...
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... readers . W. H. Auden makes a good spokesman for this position : " It is as meaningless to ask whether one believes ... reader . Auden implies , moreover , that the boundary is passable only in one direction ; art imitates the world as ...
... readers . W. H. Auden makes a good spokesman for this position : " It is as meaningless to ask whether one believes ... reader . Auden implies , moreover , that the boundary is passable only in one direction ; art imitates the world as ...
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... readers . The im- portant point to urge against Auden , however , is that readers ' preconceptions and whatever view of reality they represent do not by themselves fix the bound- ary between fictive and real worlds or manage the ...
... readers . The im- portant point to urge against Auden , however , is that readers ' preconceptions and whatever view of reality they represent do not by themselves fix the bound- ary between fictive and real worlds or manage the ...
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... readers to understand Cupid differently than do its speaker or characters . The dreamer of the Roman de la rose , for instance , takes Love to be god , while the poem encourages its readers to see him as a passion of the mind . Cupid's ...
... readers to understand Cupid differently than do its speaker or characters . The dreamer of the Roman de la rose , for instance , takes Love to be god , while the poem encourages its readers to see him as a passion of the mind . Cupid's ...
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