Allegorical Poetics and the Epic: The Renaissance Tradition to Paradise Lost

by Mindele Anne Treip

Book Overview

Treip (English, Cambridge U.) analyzes the use of allegory in and the allegorical exegesis on scripture, poetry, and particularly the epic in Europe from antiquity to the 17th and early 18th centuries. She focuses on the Renaissance and the three-way literary relationship among Tasso, Spenser, and M

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081311831X
• ISBN13: 9780813118314
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 368 Pages