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• catalog abstract ""In this study of the epic genre and its evolution from Homer to Milton, Patrick Cook rejects this claim by Bakhtin and reveals instead that the six works he addresses are filled with discursive tensions, conflicts and indeterminacy. These six works, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Orlando Furioso, the Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost are chosen as key texts which have actively reworked their generic inheritance, handing it on, greatly enhanced, to their successors." "Starting with an analysis of Homer's Iliad, Cook identifies a number of core generic elements, in particular the employment of the imperial citadel as a sacred centre, orienting the hero's aspirations centripetally and vertically. The ways in which the Odyssey then revised epic space-time to reflect new values of the city-state are discussed, with chapter two addressing the manner in which the Aeneid draws upon both Homeric models to analyse the paradoxes of empire." "Attention turns next to the Renaissance and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which demonstrated the ability of epic's appeal to traverse both classical and Judaeo-Christian cultures, fusing and thereby revitalising both epic and medieval romance forms. In the Reformation, Spenser pursued this fusion further in his Faerie Queene, placing unprecedented demands on the ability of heroes and readers to make sense of a world at once unceasingly disorientating and charged with means for interpreting experience." "Coming at the end of such a rich and well-known tradition, Milton was able to create meaning both by allusions to previous works and by the conspicuous absence or obliqueness of allusion. In simultaneously employing and undermining the conventions of epic, Paradise Lost dramatizes both human failure to understand Providential order and the intuitive remedy for this misunderstanding."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12068877.
• catalog created "c1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "c1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
• catalog description ""In this study of the epic genre and its evolution from Homer to Milton, Patrick Cook rejects this claim by Bakhtin and reveals instead that the six works he addresses are filled with discursive tensions, conflicts and indeterminacy. These six works, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Orlando Furioso, the Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost are chosen as key texts which have actively reworked their generic inheritance, handing it on, greatly enhanced, to their successors." "Starting with an analysis of Homer's Iliad, Cook identifies a number of core generic elements, in particular the employment of the imperial citadel as a sacred centre, orienting the hero's aspirations centripetally and vertically. The ways in which the Odyssey then revised epic space-time to reflect new values of the city-state are discussed, with chapter two addressing the manner in which the Aeneid draws upon both Homeric models to analyse the paradoxes of empire." "Attention turns next to the Renaissance and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which demonstrated the ability of epic's appeal to traverse both classical and Judaeo-Christian cultures, fusing and thereby revitalising both epic and medieval romance forms. In the Reformation, Spenser pursued this fusion further in his Faerie Queene, placing unprecedented demands on the ability of heroes and readers to make sense of a world at once unceasingly disorientating and charged with means for interpreting experience." "Coming at the end of such a rich and well-known tradition, Milton was able to create meaning both by allusions to previous works and by the conspicuous absence or obliqueness of allusion. In simultaneously employing and undermining the conventions of epic, Paradise Lost dramatizes both human failure to understand Providential order and the intuitive remedy for this misunderstanding."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Homeric origins -- The Vergilian revision -- From Ariosto to Spenser -- The copious matter of the Faerie Queene -- The endless work of Paradise Lost.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-195) and index.".
• catalog extent "201 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "1859282717 (cloth)".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "c1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, VT, USA : Ashgate,".
• catalog subject "Epic literature, European History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "European literature Classical influences.".
• catalog subject "Milton, John, 1608-1674 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "PN694.E6 C66 1999".
• catalog subject "Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Homeric origins -- The Vergilian revision -- From Ariosto to Spenser -- The copious matter of the Faerie Queene -- The endless work of Paradise Lost.".
• catalog title "Milton, Spenser, and the epic tradition / Patrick J. Cook.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".