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The burial-places of memory : epic underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton / Ronald R. Macdonald.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.Description: 1 online resource (x, 223 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585083878
  • 9780585083872
  • 1122052251
  • 9781122052252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Burial-places of memory.DDC classification:
  • 809.1/3 19
LOC classification:
  • PN1333.H45 M3 1987eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
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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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