Spenser's Famous Flight: A Renaissance Idea of a Literary CareerUniversity of Toronto Press, 1993 - Počet stran: 360 In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light of Petrarch and the Reformation. Cheney demonstrates that, far from changing his mind about his career as a result of disillusionment, Spenser embarks upon and completes a daring progress that secures his status as an Orphic poet. In October, Spenser calls his idea of a literary career the 'famous flight.' Both classical and Christian culture has authorized the myth of the winged poet as a primary myth of fame and glory. Cheney shows that throughout his poetry Spenser relies on an image of flight to accomplish his highest goal. |
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... means of salvation . " To manage and economize a highly complex thesis about Spenser's idea of a literary career , I ... mean a mythos - a narrative or story valuable to culture ( Frye , Great Code 31-3 ; Nagy , Greek Mythology and ...
... means ' a small enclosure for domestic animals , as cows , sheep , swine , or poultry ' ( OED , def . 1 ) ; on the other , it means ' a writing tool ' ( OED , def . 2.11 ) made of a ' quill - feather ' ( It . penna , feather [ OED , def ...
... means ' the poem's office as directions for a performance - a script , that is , compounded of sounds that serve referential or expressive purposes in nonpoetic con- texts , other sounds ... that have no other contexts , and the ...
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Scanning the Famous Flight | 3 |
The Literary Career | 23 |
Acquiring Vatic Authority | 77 |
Autorská práva | |
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