The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... whole spectrum of attempts in Hell to raid the public domain of language and symbol and appropriate it for the self , to force it to work for one's own immortality . Guido da Montefeltro's story ( Inf . 27 ) records among other things ...
... whole spectrum of attempts in Hell to raid the public domain of language and symbol and appropriate it for the self , to force it to work for one's own immortality . Guido da Montefeltro's story ( Inf . 27 ) records among other things ...
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... whole problem of choice is at the very center of Paradise Lost , for it is a poem deeply concerned with the consequences of those choices that are now entailed upon us . In Paradise Lost Milton sustains a prolonged meditation on the ...
... whole problem of choice is at the very center of Paradise Lost , for it is a poem deeply concerned with the consequences of those choices that are now entailed upon us . In Paradise Lost Milton sustains a prolonged meditation on the ...
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... whole seek death , and Freud meets it directly : The hypothesis of self - preservative instincts , such as we attribute to all living beings , stands in marked opposition to the idea that instinctual life as a whole serves to bring ...
... whole seek death , and Freud meets it directly : The hypothesis of self - preservative instincts , such as we attribute to all living beings , stands in marked opposition to the idea that instinctual life as a whole serves to bring ...
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