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050 00 $aPN56.M3$bB56 1996
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100 1 $aBiow, Douglas.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96010594
245 10 $aMirabile dictu :$brepresentations of the marvelous in medieval and Renaissance epic /$cDouglas Biow.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c1996.
263 $a9606
300 $aviii, 199 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStylus
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tVirgil's Aeneid: Marvels, Violence, and Narrative Self-Consciousness --$gCh. 2.$tDante: From Ignorance to Knowledge --$gCh. 3.$tThe Value of Marvels --$gCh. 4.$tAriosto, Power, and the Desire for Totality --$gCh. 5.$tIndividuals, Communities, and the Kinds of Marvels Told --$gCh. 6.$tA Spenserian Conclusion: Purity and Danger.
520 $aMirabile Dictu covers in six separate chapters the works of Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. Its broad aim is to provide a select cross section of works in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in order to examine and compare for the first time the marvelous in the light of epic genre, in the light of literary and critical theory (both past and present), and in the light of historically and culturally determined representational practices.
520 8 $aDouglas Biow organizes this volume around the literary topos of the bleeding branch through which a metamorphosed person speaks. In each chapter the author takes this "marvelous event" as his starting point for a broad-ranging comparison of the several poets who employed the image; he also investigates the ways in which a period's notion of history underpins its representations of the marvelous.
520 8 $aThis method offers a controlled yet flexible framework within which to develop readings that engage a multiplicity of theories and approaches.
650 0 $aMarvelous, The, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081682
650 0 $aEpic literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103110
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077549
650 0 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103307
830 0 $aStylus.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96010592
852 00 $bglx$hPN56.M3$iB56 1996