The genius to improve an invention: literary transitions
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
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This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Here, Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and me...
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- ISBN13 9780268029500
- ISBN10 0268029504
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 151
- Año de Edición 2002
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Estudios Literatura ComparadaThe genius to improve an invention: literary transitions
Editorial UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Here, Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and me...
España peninsular
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This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and "perfect" them. Here, Piero Boitani adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts, scenes, and themes have been rewritten by modern authors. Boitani focuses on a concept of literary transition that takes into account both T.S. Eliot's idea of "tradition and individual talent" and Harold Bloom's "anxiety of influence". In five essays he examines a range of authors and texts, including Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Voltaire, Goethe, Sarte, Dante, and Keats.