The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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Page 63
... appears when we begin to decide what to do about them , for we can either deny our animal nature and flee from it , we can adopt a polite fiction that it does not exist , or we can approach it creatively and try to incorporate it and ...
... appears when we begin to decide what to do about them , for we can either deny our animal nature and flee from it , we can adopt a polite fiction that it does not exist , or we can approach it creatively and try to incorporate it and ...
Page 124
... appears in the guise of the narrator in the invocations , of Adam in his measured conversations with our general mother , or of the angels in Heaven and the devils in Hell when in parallel scenes each group is asked to produce a ...
... appears in the guise of the narrator in the invocations , of Adam in his measured conversations with our general mother , or of the angels in Heaven and the devils in Hell when in parallel scenes each group is asked to produce a ...
Page 129
... appears to him as a convenient repository of all the evil that has befallen him , an easy explanation for the current state of things , in short , as a scapegoat . And where his unfallen addresses to his spouse tended to see her ...
... appears to him as a convenient repository of all the evil that has befallen him , an easy explanation for the current state of things , in short , as a scapegoat . And where his unfallen addresses to his spouse tended to see her ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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