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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... turn and must entertain all three alternatives . But how seriously must we entertain them ? This question about poetic theology is the central issue of Thomas Hyde's wide- ranging study in the uses of the God of Love's most crucial ...
... turn and must entertain all three alternatives . But how seriously must we entertain them ? This question about poetic theology is the central issue of Thomas Hyde's wide- ranging study in the uses of the God of Love's most crucial ...
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... turn and must entertain all three . But how seriously must we entertain them ? This question about the poetic theology of love is the central issue of this book . As Plotinus suggests , his three answers usually reduce to two : is love ...
... turn and must entertain all three . But how seriously must we entertain them ? This question about the poetic theology of love is the central issue of this book . As Plotinus suggests , his three answers usually reduce to two : is love ...
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... turns from ontology to epistemology : " Or is it , perhaps , sometimes to be thought of As a god or demon and sometimes merely as an experience ? " Two passages will suffice to indicate the importance of the distinct ontologies and the ...
... turns from ontology to epistemology : " Or is it , perhaps , sometimes to be thought of As a god or demon and sometimes merely as an experience ? " Two passages will suffice to indicate the importance of the distinct ontologies and the ...
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... turn has ethical consequences . A 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 ...
... turn has ethical consequences . A 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 ...
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... turn briefly from poetic theology to the theology that Christians take to be non - poetic or literal . An artist can represent the true God , of course , but he cannot represent Him truly , and this limitation leads to the prohibition ...
... turn briefly from poetic theology to the theology that Christians take to be non - poetic or literal . An artist can represent the true God , of course , but he cannot represent Him truly , and this limitation leads to the prohibition ...
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