Allegorical Poetics and the Epic : The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost

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Literary allegory has deep roots in early reading and interpretation of Scripture and classical epic and myth. In this substantial study, Mindele Treip presents an overview of the history and theory of allegorical exegesis upon Scripture, poetry, and especially the epic from antiquity to the sevente...

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Main Author: Treip, Mindele Anne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tasso, Torquato, > 1544-1595.
Tasso, Torquato, > 1544-1595 > Influence.
Milton, John, > 1608-1674. > Paradise lost.
Paradise lost (Milton, John)
Bible.
Bible > In literature.
Literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Allegory.
POETRY > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Allegorie.
Influence litteraire, artistique, etc.
Poesie epique > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Poesie epique anglaise > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Poesie europeenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Epic poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Epic poetry, English > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Christian poetry, English > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
European poetry > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Literary allegory has deep roots in early reading and interpretation of Scripture and classical epic and myth. In this substantial study, Mindele Treip presents an overview of the history and theory of allegorical exegesis upon Scripture, poetry, and especially the epic from antiquity to the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, with close focus on the Renaissance and on the triangular literary relationship of Tasso, Spenser, and Milton. Exploring the different ways in which the term allegory has been understood, Treip finds significant continuities-within-differences in a wide range of.
Item Description:Problems in ""Typological"" Readings of Paradise Lost.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 pages).
ISBN:9780813161662

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