TY  - BOOK
N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Mirabile dictu :representations of the marvelous in medieval and Renaissance epic /
AU  - Biow, Douglas,
CN  - PN56.M3
CN  - PN56.M3
ID  - 1381168
KW  - Marvelous, The, in literature.
KW  - Epic literature
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - European literature
KW  - Merveilleux dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature épique
KW  - Littérature médiévale
KW  - Littérature européenne
KW  - 17.93 themes and motives in literature.
KW  - Epic literature.
KW  - European literature
KW  - Literature, Medieval.
KW  - Marvelous, The, in literature.
KW  - Het fantastische.
KW  - Epen.
KW  - Renaissance.
KW  - Marvelous, The, in literature.
KW  - Epic poetry
KW  - Epic literature
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - European literature
SN  - 0472106910
SN  - 9780472106912
TI  - Mirabile dictu :representations of the marvelous in medieval and Renaissance epic /
ER  -