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1 online resource |
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Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Series page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- The Choice of Odysseus (I): Homeric Alternatives to Virgilian Paradigms -- The Choice of Penelope: Odyssean Marriage as Epic Matter and Epic Telos -- The Choice of Odysseus (II): A New (Old) Reading of Odyssey 7 -- Parenthesis: Counterfactual Narratives and Heroic Prudence -- The Choice of Odysseus in Renaissance Epic -- 1. Speaking with Homer: Authorizing Conversations and Dream Visions in Petrarch and Poliziano -- Petrarch -- Poliziano -- 2. Ariosto's Fractured Odysseys: Allusive Interlace and the Limits of Exemplarity in Orlando furioso -- From Poliziano to Ariosto: Humanism and the Schoolroom -- A Case Study in Odyssean Failure: Norandino -- Unending Odysseys: Medoro, Angelica, Orlando -- The Choice of Odysseus: Rinaldo -- Ariosto's Odyssean Endings: Bradamante, Ruggiero, Leone -- 3. From Public Duty to Private Pleasures: Odyssean Eros and Heroism in Gerusalemme liberata -- Theory and Practice, Renaissance and Modern -- Homer's Armida: From Circe to Nausicaa -- Rinaldo's Choice of Odysseus -- Rinaldo's Odyssean Education: Allusion and Allegory -- Tasso's Odyssean Ending -- Epic Romance? -- 4. Spenser's Legends of Sōphrosunē: Temperance, Chastity, and Odyssean Eros in The Faerie Queene -- Moral Allegory and the Problem of Temperate Pleasure -- Guyon's 'Choice of Odysseus': The Rejection of Eros -- Siren Pleasures -- The Destruction of Eros: The Legend of Temperance and the Bower of Bliss -- The Recovery of Odyssean Eros: The Legend of Chastity -- Fugitive Eros: Second Thoughts -- 5. The Choice of Penelope: Exemplary Women and Exemplary Marriage in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- Setting the Scene: Duelling Prologues |
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From Clever to Chaste: Penelope's Exemplary Web and the Nature of Homophrosunē -- Unweaving and Reweaving: Rehabilitating Penelope in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- From Page to Stage: Restoring Homophrosunē to Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- The Choice of Penelope: Exemplarity in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria -- 6. Milton's Odyssean Ethics: Arminian Theology and Homeric Heroism in Paradise Lost -- Openings: Odyssey 1 and Paradise Lost 3 -- 7. Falling into Epic: The Choice of Odysseus and the Road to Redemption in Paradise Lost -- Setting the Odyssean Scene: Eden and Scheria -- The Choice of Odysseus in malo: Satan's Seduction of Eve -- The Choice of Odysseus in bono: Adam's Fall -- Milton's Odyssean Marriage: Homophrosunē and Female Heroism after the Fall -- The Sinews of Ulysses: Odyssean Epic as Postlapsarian Ideal -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
'The Choice of Odysseus' demonstrates how the 'Odyssey' provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics for their age. Sarah Van der Laan reconstructs Renaissance readings of the 'Odyssey' by Petrarch, Poliziano, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser, Monteverdi, and Milton to recover a powerful Renaissance tradition of Odyssean epic |
| Notes |
Also issued in print: 2024 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 05, 2024) |
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Homer -- Influence
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Homer -- Appreciation
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Epic poetry -- History and criticism
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European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191823817 |
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0191823813 |
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9780192524263 |
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0192524267 |
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9780191084171 |
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0191084174 |
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