Christian Allegory in Early Hispanic Poetry: 4 (Studies in Romance Languages) - Softcover

Foster, David William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081315233X ISBN 13: 9780813152332

Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

Distinguishing figural or typological allegory-a method adapted from the Christian exegesis of the Old Testament-from the broader Hellenistic concept of allegory, this book examines its use in representative poems of early Hispanic literature. The author focuses on the thematic and structural employment of this originally nonliterary device and comments on the literary problems it posed and the artistic effects which were achieved by it. The development of this particular allegorical method in medieval Hispanic literature-works in Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, and Catalan-he shows, was fully equal to that found in the medieval Latin, Italian, and English literatures, and an understanding of its use serves to clarify the interpretation of many individual poems.

Biografía del autor:

David William Foster is in the department of Spanish at Arizona State University.

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• Verlag: The University Press of Kentucky
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 081315233X
• ISBN 13: 9780813152332
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 150