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The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Piero Boitani
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:348 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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| Category/Genre | Literary studies - classical, early and medieval |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521131070
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| Classifications | Dewey:809.02 |
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| Audience | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
11 February 2010 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, studies tragic and sublime tensions in stories and scenes recounted by such major poets as Dante, Chaucer and Petrarch, as well as themes shared by writers and philosophers and traditional poetic images. The result is a learned, stimulating, and wide-ranging volume of studies in comparative European literature, which takes into account poems written in English, Italian and other languages, and compares them with their classical and biblical ancestors as well as with their modern descendants.
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