The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature

Name: The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature
Author: Piero Boitani

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Paperback, 348 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2010

ISBN13: 9780521131070

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Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, studies tragic and sublime tensions in stories and scenes recounted by such major poets as Dante, Chaucer and Petrarch, as well as themes shared by writers and philosophers and traditional poetic images. The result is a learned, stimulating, and wide-ranging volume of studies in comparative European literature, which takes into account poems written in English, Italian and other languages, and compares them with their classical and biblical ancestors as well as with their modern descendants.

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ISBN13:9780521131070

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Aantal pagina's:348

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

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Preface; Note on the Texts; 1. 'The Old Man and the Earth': alterity and otherness of a medieval story; 2. Two versions of tragedy: Ugolino and Hugelyn; 3. 'O quike deth': love, melancholy, and the divided self; 4. Sunset, flowers and leaves: tradition and tragic images; 5. A spark of love: medieval recognitions; 6. I know the signs of the ancient flame: Dante's recognitions; 7. 'His desir wol fle withouten wynges': Mary and love in fourteenth-century poetry; 8. The Sibyl's leaves: reading Paradiso XXXIII; 9. 'L'acqua che ritorna equale': Dante's Sublime; Notes; Index.

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