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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... wings also and makes Venus his mother ? The distinction seems trivial , and some of the last genera- tion's best scholarship on allegory and poetic theology has taught us to suspect it even in theory . E. H. Gombrich has argued , for ...
... wings also and makes Venus his mother ? The distinction seems trivial , and some of the last genera- tion's best scholarship on allegory and poetic theology has taught us to suspect it even in theory . E. H. Gombrich has argued , for ...
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... wings , and made the god flit about human hearts , for truly we are always tossed on a shifting sea , and our breeze never lasts in any one quarter . ) However appropriate in general , the conventional fiction is untrue in Propertius's ...
... wings , and made the god flit about human hearts , for truly we are always tossed on a shifting sea , and our breeze never lasts in any one quarter . ) However appropriate in general , the conventional fiction is untrue in Propertius's ...
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... wings , but without recourse to language he could not show that he was representing an individual case of love or that all such representations are only fictions . An emblem of Alciati illustrated here makes the same limitations of the ...
... wings , but without recourse to language he could not show that he was representing an individual case of love or that all such representations are only fictions . An emblem of Alciati illustrated here makes the same limitations of the ...
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... wings , and cannot see . These are the attributes and this the condi- tion of a god ! But if to say so much be permitted to poets , I think it at bottom to be false . ) The mockery has a moral purpose as the verses make clear at the end ...
... wings , and cannot see . These are the attributes and this the condi- tion of a god ! But if to say so much be permitted to poets , I think it at bottom to be false . ) The mockery has a moral purpose as the verses make clear at the end ...
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