Machine derived contents note: Introduction: ideology and trope in epic argument -- Part I. The Ancient Epic: 1. The politics of the simile in the Iliad -- 2. The Aeneid: the power of the figure -- 3. The figurative economy of the Aenid -- Part II. Versions of the Renaissance Epic: 4. The epistemologies of errantry in The Faerie Queene -- 5. The politics of allegory in The Faerie Queene -- 6. The compulsion of Trope: two paradigms -- notes -- Index of citations -- General index
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