The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... story , if not his poem , is the first ( and in some sense the only ) story ever told , Milton manages to convey something like the impression that previous epics were really trying to tell the story of Paradise Lost with very partial ...
... story , if not his poem , is the first ( and in some sense the only ) story ever told , Milton manages to convey something like the impression that previous epics were really trying to tell the story of Paradise Lost with very partial ...
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... story catches up with its own present , the Phaeaecians are induced to complete it in experience and convey Odysseus , laden with gifts , to his Ithacan home . That is the last episode in the story known as the Wanderings of Odysseus ...
... story catches up with its own present , the Phaeaecians are induced to complete it in experience and convey Odysseus , laden with gifts , to his Ithacan home . That is the last episode in the story known as the Wanderings of Odysseus ...
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... story of his 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 ...
... story of his 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 ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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