Mirabile dictu : representations of the marvelous in medieval and Renaissance epic / Douglas Biow.
Biow, Douglas, author.
1996
PN56.M3 B56 1996 (Mapit)
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Title Mirabile dictu : representations of the marvelous in medieval and Renaissance epic / Douglas Biow.
Author Biow, Douglas, author.
ISBN 0472106910 (acid-free paper)
9780472106912 (acid-free paper)
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1996]
Copyright ©1996.
Language English
Description viii, 199 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number PN56.M3 B56 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.1/32091
Summary Mirabile Dictu covers in six separate chapters the works of Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. Its broad aim is to provide a select cross section of works in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in order to examine and compare for the first time the marvelous in the light of epic genre, in the light of literary and critical theory (both past and present), and in the light of historically and culturally determined representational practices. Douglas Biow organizes this volume around the literary topos of the bleeding branch through which a metamorphosed person speaks. In each chapter the author takes this "marvelous event" as his starting point for a broad-ranging comparison of the several poets who employed the image; he also investigates the ways in which a period's notion of history underpins its representations of the marvelous. This method offers a controlled yet flexible framework within which to develop readings that engage a multiplicity of theories and approaches.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-191) and index.
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Ch. 1. Virgil's Aeneid: Marvels, Violence, and Narrative Self-Consciousness
Ch. 2. Dante: From Ignorance to Knowledge
Ch. 3. The Value of Marvels
Ch. 4. Ariosto, Power, and the Desire for Totality
Ch. 5. Individuals, Communities, and the Kinds of Marvels Told
Ch. 6. A Spenserian Conclusion: Purity and Danger.

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