The gift of immortality: myths of power and humanist poetics

This book considers the boast of literary power to glorify or immortalize, a topos of enormous popularity. Focusing on representative figures of Renaissance humanism and the roots of the topos in antiquity, author Stephen Murphy elaborates a complex myth of poetic power. This myth, constructed with...

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1. Verfasser: Murphy, Stephen (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Madison [u.a.] Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press [u.a.] 1997
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Zusammenfassung:This book considers the boast of literary power to glorify or immortalize, a topos of enormous popularity. Focusing on representative figures of Renaissance humanism and the roots of the topos in antiquity, author Stephen Murphy elaborates a complex myth of poetic power. This myth, constructed with the help of such theorists as Ernst Cassirer, Giambattista Vico, Marcel Mauss, and Theodor Adorno, includes the elements of nostalgia for a primordial epoch of magical effectiveness and social centrality, the ideal of patronage as gift exchange, and the absorption of these extra-literary circumstances into literary convention.
Beschreibung:319 S.
ISBN:0838636853

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