Spenser, Milton, and the Redemption of the Epic Hero
This book studies the interplay of theology and poetics in the three great epics of early-modern England: the Faerie Queene, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained. Bond examines the relationship between the poems' primary heroes, Arthur and the Son, who are godlike, virtuous, and powerful, and the secondary heroes, Redcrosse and Adam, who are human, fallible, and weak. He looks back at the development of this pattern of dual heroism in classical, Medieval, and Italian Renaissance literature, investigates the ways in which Spenser and Milton adapted the model, and demonstrates how the Jesus of Paradise Regained can be seen as the culmination of…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61149-465-5
- EAN: 9781611494655
- Produktnummer: 14573172
- Verlag: University of Delaware Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 260 S.
- Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.1 cm 372 g
- Gewicht: 372
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Christopher Bond was an A. Bartlett Giamatti Fellow. Bond has taught English literature at Yale and law at City University, London. He now practices at the commercial bar in London.
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