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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Divine Comedy as a Contrasting Background | 11 |
Christian Desacralization | 24 |
The Trajectory of This Book | 37 |
BEYOND PLATO | 43 |
Platos Sacred Anxiety | 50 |
Similarities and Differences | 63 |
The Role of Poetry in an Increasingly Desacralized Reality | 72 |
The End of the Poem and the Cry of the Victim | 153 |
Beyond the Howls of Acheron | 166 |
BEYOND THE EPIC MODEL | 175 |
The Mixture of Christian and Pagan | 184 |
Reviewing a Critical Commentary on the Orlando Furioso | 193 |
The Existential Problematic of Calderonian Honor | 204 |
HISTORICAL SIGNPOSTS | 233 |
The Increasing Centrality of the Crucifixion in the Late | 245 |
BEYOND ARISTOTLE | 89 |
The Old Science and the Howls of Hungry Acheron | 97 |
The Poetics and the Sacred | 105 |
Francis Bacon the Herald | 114 |
A Humble Way out of the Impasse | 127 |
Sacrificial Levels in Virgils Poem | 133 |
Palinuruss Deliberate Contradiction of Textual Evidence | 141 |
The Inane Fury Between People Destined to Live | 147 |
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