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1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Renaissance Suppliants: Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Texts and Translations; Epigraph; 1. Supplicatory Dynamics: Problems, Paradoxes, and Paradigms; THE DYNAMICS OF SUPPLICATION; VARIETIES OF CONSTRAINT; BEAUTIFUL HUMILIATION; 2. "Spare this life": Pleading, Pardon, and the Reader in Vergil's Aeneid; ROMAN SUPPLICATION FROM REPUBLIC TO EMPIRE; SUPPLICATION AND RHETORICAL NARRATIVE IN VERGIL'S AENEID; AENEAS AND THE SUPPLIANT: TWO VERSIONS OF ILIAD 24; THE NARRATOR VS. THE HERO |
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3. Pity, Mercy, and Desire: Supplication and Erotic Psychology in Petrarch's Africaand Rerum Vulgarium FragmentaTRECENTO LOVE FROM PETITION TO PRAISE; THE AFRICA: SUPPLICATION, MERCY, AND DESIRE; RECIPROCITY AND INTERIORITY IN THE RERUM VULGARIUM FRAGMENTA; 4. "Let us shame him with our knees": Constraint and Coercion in Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus; EMBLEMS OF INTEGRATION; SUPPLICATION AND SUBVERSION: RICHARD II; TRAGIC RELENTING: CORIOLANUS; 5. "Thy humiliation shall exalt": Hierarchy and Reconciliation in Milton's Paradise Lost; THE RELIGIOUS POLITICS OF KNEELING |
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SATAN AGAINST THE "SUPPLIANT KNEE"EVE'S HOMERIC SUPPLICATION; "HUMILIATION SHALL EXALT": LEVELING HIERARCHIES IN PARADISE LOST; 6. Epilogue; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index |
| Summary |
'Renaissance Suppliants' traces the history of supplication from Homer to the present, showing how gestures of powerlessness can have unexpected emotional power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-229) and index |
| Subject |
Reconciliation in literature.
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Emotions in literature.
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Power (Philosophy) in literature.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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Reconciliation in literature
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Power (Philosophy) in literature
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Emotions in literature
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European literature -- Renaissance
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191816017 |
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0191816019 |
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0198754442 |
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9780198754442 |
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