The tragic and the sublime in medieval literature
By: Piero Boitani.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Sublime, The -- History -- To 1500; Sublime, The, in literature; Tragic, The, in literature
Description: Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, tragic studies and sublime tensions in stories and scenes recounted by such major poets as Dante, Chaucer and Petrarch, as well as themes shared by writers and philosophers and traditional poetic images. The result is a learned, stimulating, and wide-ranging volume of studies in comparative European literature, which takes into account poems written in English, Italian and other languages, and compares them with their classical and biblical ancestors as well as with their modern descendants.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-316).