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The Choice of Achilles. The Ideology of Figure in the Epic.
Susanne Lindgren Wofford
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Description for The Choice of Achilles. The Ideology of Figure in the Epic.
Hardcover. This text examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epics figurative economy. Num Pages: 496 pages, index. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 38. .
This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's Paradise Lost and Cervantes' Don Quixote, an 'epic' in prose. The ... Read more
This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expressed moral and political values. It combines a formal and tropological analysis that stresses difference and disjunction with a political analysis of the epic's figurative economy. It offers an interpretation of three epic poems - Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, and Spencer's Faerie Queene - that focuses on the way these texts make apparent the aesthetic, moral, and political difference that constitutes them, and sketches, in conclusion, two alternative resolutions of such division in Milton's Paradise Lost and Cervantes' Don Quixote, an 'epic' in prose. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804719179
SKU
V9780804719179
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Reviews for The Choice of Achilles. The Ideology of Figure in the Epic.
'A powerful, compelling, and original study. It will make a difference; it will stir up healthy argument; it will suggest a new way to deal with the currently pressing controversy between the claims of formalist and political orientations toward reading. The major accomplishment of the book is the deployment of the basic action/figure schema in the service of a transgressive ... Read more