Challenging conventional notions that literary allegorism declined precipitously around 1600, Kenneth Borris reassesses the Renaissance relations between allegory and heroic poetry, particularly in the major texts of Sidney, Spenser and Milton. Through wide-ranging consideration of Homeric and Virgilian reception and its influence on both continental and English literary theory, he shows that allegorical epic tended to double for and displace epic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Borris offers a fresh ...
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Challenging conventional notions that literary allegorism declined precipitously around 1600, Kenneth Borris reassesses the Renaissance relations between allegory and heroic poetry, particularly in the major texts of Sidney, Spenser and Milton. Through wide-ranging consideration of Homeric and Virgilian reception and its influence on both continental and English literary theory, he shows that allegorical epic tended to double for and displace epic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Borris offers a fresh approach to the interaction of allegory with literary genres; focusing on epic, he further analyses the distinctive codes and conventions that constituted the generic repertoire of Renaissance allegorical epic poetry. Whereas standard literary history assumes Sidney opposes allegory, and that Milton minimises or rejects it in following Spenser, Borris's detailed readings demonstrate that Sidney and Milton are also major allegorists, and that Spenser remained so even in the latter books of The Faerie Queene. This book was first published in 2000.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0521781299.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0521781299.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Unspecified, Halftones. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 99087474 Type of material Book Personal name Borris, Kenneth. Main title Allegory and epic in English Renaissance literature: heroic form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton / Kenneth Borris. Published/Created Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Description xii, 320 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0521781299 (hb) LC classification PR539. E7 B67 2000 LC Subjects Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Technique. Spenser, Edmund, 1552? -1599--Technique. Milton, John, 1608-1674--Technique. English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism. Epic poetry, English--History and criticism. English poetry--Classical influences. Literary form--History--16th century. Literary form--History--17th century. Allegory. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 821/.0320903 Geographic area code e-uk---
