The Gift of Immortality: Myths of Power and Humanist Poetics

by Murphy

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This study considers the widespread assertion of literary power to glorify or immortalize Focusing on representative figures of Renaissance humanism and the roots of the topos in Antiquity, the book elaborates a complex myth of poetic power.
  • ISBN13 9780838636855
  • Publish Date 1 April 1997
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Associated University Presses
  • Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 319
  • Language English