Search Results - "Faerie"

The Augustinian epic, Petrarch to Milton by Warner, J. Christopher (James Christopher), 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Petrarch's Culpa and Augustine's counsel -- Petrarch's Culpa and the Allegory of the Africa -- Renaissance allegories of the Aeneid: the doctrine of the two Venuses and the epic of the two cities -- Petrarch's Culpa in Gerusalemme liberata -- The epic imitation of Christ: Marco Girolamo Vida's Christiad -- Vergil the evangelist: the Christiad of Alexander Ross -- Augustinian epic in Paradise lost -- Augustinian epic in romance epic: the example of Spenser's Faerie queene.…”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Mermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England / by Pedersen, Tara E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Identifying mermaids: economies of representation in Dekker and Middleton's The roaring girl -- "We shall discover our selves": practicing the mermaid's law in Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure -- Perfect pictures: the mermaid's half-theater and the anti-theatrical debates in Book III of Spenser's The faerie queene -- Reading like a mermaid: Antony and Cleopatra's (un)mysterious history and the case of the disappearing snake -- Afterword: "drown'd O, where?"…”
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Mermaids and the production of knowledge in early modern England / by Pedersen, Tara E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Identifying mermaids: economies of representation in Dekker and Middleton's The roaring girl -- "We shall discover our selves": practicing the mermaid's law in Margaret Cavendish's The convent of pleasure -- Perfect pictures: the mermaid's half-theater and the anti-theatrical debates in Book III of Spenser's The faerie queene -- Reading like a mermaid: Antony and Cleopatra's (un)mysterious history and the case of the disappearing snake -- Afterword: "drown'd O, where?"…”
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Translating investments metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change in Tudor-Stuart England / by Anderson, Judith H.

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change: an introductory road map -- Translating investments: the metaphoricity of language: Hamlet, and 2 Henry IV -- Language and history in the reformation: translating matter to metaphor in the sacrament -- Donne's tropic awareness: metaphor, metonymy, and devotions upon emergent occasions -- Vesting significance and authority: the Vestiarian controversy under Cranmer and its treatment by Foxe -- Busirane's place: the house of abusive rhetoric in the Faerie Queene -- Catachresis and metaphor: "Be bold, be bold, be not too bold" in the Latin rhetorical tradition and its renaissance adaptors -- Exchanging values: the economic and rhetorical world seen by Gerrard de Malynes, merchant.…”
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Translating investments metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change in Tudor-Stuart England / by Anderson, Judith H.

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance metaphor and the dynamic of cultural change: an introductory road map -- Translating investments: the metaphoricity of language: Hamlet, and 2 Henry IV -- Language and history in the reformation: translating matter to metaphor in the sacrament -- Donne's tropic awareness: metaphor, metonymy, and devotions upon emergent occasions -- Vesting significance and authority: the Vestiarian controversy under Cranmer and its treatment by Foxe -- Busirane's place: the house of abusive rhetoric in the Faerie Queene -- Catachresis and metaphor: "Be bold, be bold, be not too bold" in the Latin rhetorical tradition and its renaissance adaptors -- Exchanging values: the economic and rhetorical world seen by Gerrard de Malynes, merchant.…”
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