Allegory of Love - Couverture souple

Lewis, C. S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195003438 ISBN 13 : 9780195003437

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1936

Synopsis

Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth century. This book is intended for students of medieval literature from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the `Courtly Love' tradition. Fans of C.S. Lewis's writings.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition, by C.S. Lewis, is an influential exploration of the allegorical treatment of love in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. A classic study of courtly love that looks at Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love. Works by Chretien de Troyes, Bernard Silvestris, Alain de Lille are explored, as are poems by Chaucer.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 1936
• ISBN 10: 0195003438
• ISBN 13: 9780195003437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 388