From many gods to one : divine action in Renaissance epic

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From many gods to one : divine action in Renaissance epic

Title remainder

divine action in Renaissance epic

Statement of responsibility

Tobias Gregory

Creator

• Gregory, Tobias

Subject

• Epic poetry, European -- History and criticism
• European poetry -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Gods in literature
• God in literature

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "From Many Gods to One offers the first comparative study of poetic approaches to the problem of epic divine action. Through readings of Petrarch, Vida, Ariosto, Tasso, and Milton, Tobias Gregory describes the narrative and ideological consequences of the epic's turn from pagan to Christian. Drawing on scholarship in several disciplines - religious studies, classics, history, and philosophy, as well as literature - From Many Gods to One sheds new light on two subjects of enduring importance in Renaissance studies: the precarious balance between classical literary models and Christian religious norms and the role of religion in drawing lines between allies and others."--BOOK JACKET
• "Epic poets of the Renaissance looked to emulate the poems of Greco-Roman antiquity, but doing so presented a dilemma: what to do about the gods? Divine intervention plays a major part in the epics of Homer and Virgil--indeed, quarrels within the family of Olympian gods are essential to the narrative structure of those poems--yet poets of the Renaissance recognized that the cantankerous Olympians could not be imitated too closely. The divine action of their classical models had to be transformed to accord with contemporary tastes and Christian belief. From Many Gods to One offers the first comparative study of poetic approaches to the problem of epic divine action. Through readings of Petrarch, Vida, Ariosto, Tasso, and Milton, Tobias Gregory describes the narrative and ideological consequences of the epic's turn from pagan to Christian. Drawing on scholarship in several disciplines--religious studies, classics, history, and philosophy, as well as literature--From Many Gods to One sheds new light on two subjects of enduring importance in Renaissance studies: the precarious balance between classical literary models and Christian religious norms and the role of religion in drawing lines between allies and others."--Publisher's website

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

809.1/3209351

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1333.G63

LC item number

G74 2006

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography