The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... experience can complete a story and stories are constantly being elicited by experience ; a world where a scar , for instance , a seam in the otherwise smooth surface of things , immediately calls forth a digressive story of how it came ...
... experience can complete a story and stories are constantly being elicited by experience ; a world where a scar , for instance , a seam in the otherwise smooth surface of things , immediately calls forth a digressive story of how it came ...
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... experience must be the experience of story , and the experience of story , as it were , from the helve end . I FATUM , FAMA , INFANDUM I have dwelt at such length on storytelling in the Odyssey because it seems to me that Homer's ...
... experience must be the experience of story , and the experience of story , as it were , from the helve end . I FATUM , FAMA , INFANDUM I have dwelt at such length on storytelling in the Odyssey because it seems to me that Homer's ...
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... experience in all its recal- citrance , not to a vision of experience ordered and purified by the discourse of fate . In this conflict we can glimpse something of the problem posed by the last half of the poem , perhaps even something ...
... experience in all its recal- citrance , not to a vision of experience ordered and purified by the discourse of fate . In this conflict we can glimpse something of the problem posed by the last half of the poem , perhaps even something ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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Adam Aeneas Aeneid already ancient angels appears attempt become beginning Brunetto Latini calls choice comes Commedia complete course Dante Dante's dark dead death demonic describing discourse divine earth effect epic example experience face fact Fall fallen false fate father fear figure final future give gods hand Heaven Hell hero heroic Homeric human imagination important Inferno instance kind king language light lines living look matter means memory metaphor Milton mind narration narrative nature never Odyssey once origins Paradise Lost passage past perhaps phrase pilgrim poem poet poetry precisely present question reason references relation remarkable reminded repeat Satan seems seen sense shades simply speak speech story suggests surely tell things thir tradition turn University Press Vergil vision voice whole writing