Kenneth Borris, Borris Kenneth

Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature

Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging conventional readings of literary allegorism, Borris reassesses Renaissance relations between allegory and heroic poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100090
• ISBN-10: 0521100097
• Artikelnr.: 25496910

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Note on translations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The formalization of allegory in Heroic poetry
2. Allegory and the metamorphoses of Heroic form
3. Reconfiguring the Epic repertoire
4. Arcadian allegorical epic
5. Sidneian transformations of Heroic poetry
6. Arthurian configurations: Spenser's continued Heroic allegorism
7. Spenser's Heroic allegory and the politics of ennobled virtue
8. 'Union or communion deified': universal analogies of Milton's pattern-hero
9. 'So God with man unites': Heroic community in one greater man
10. 'In mysterious terms judged best': Paradise Lost and allegorical poetics.