The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton / Ronald R. Macdonald.
Material type: TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.Description: 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)Content type:- text
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- Virgil. Aeneis
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
- Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost
- Milton, John, 1608-1674 Paradise lost
- Aeneis (Virgil)
- Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
- Paradise lost (Milton, John)
- Epic poetry, European -- History and criticism
- Hell in literature
- Voyages to the otherworld in literature
- Memory in literature
- Po�esie �epique europ�eenne -- Histoire et critique
- Enfer dans la litt�erature
- Voyages dans d'autres mondes dans la litt�erature
- M�emoire dans la litt�erature
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Epic poetry, European
- Hell in literature
- Memory in literature
- Voyages to the otherworld in literature
- Literature - General
- Languages & Literatures
- Epic poetry - Critical studies
- 809.1/3 19
- PN1333.H45 M3 1987eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214) and index.
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Part I: Vergil: the easy descent from Avernus -- Fatum, fama, infandum -- Homer's Nekuia and Vergil's Descent -- Aeneas and the ferryman -- The discourse of fate -- Part II: Dante: language and history -- The Commedia and the classical tradition -- Vergil's missing name -- The language of the tribe -- Beyond the classical tradition -- Part III: Milton: traditions and the individual talent -- The reluctant speaker -- Metaphor, naming, and presumption -- The lower deep withing the lowest deep -- The compulsion to repeat.
English.
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