Renaissance suppliants : poetry, antiquity, reconciliation

Renaissance suppliants : poetry, antiquity, reconciliation / Leah Whittington.

Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance, arguing that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, A ritual form of communication in moments of extreme helplessness a...

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Main Author: Whittington, Leah, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Reconciliation in literature.
Emotions in literature.
Power (Philosophy) in literature.
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Supplicatory dynamics : problems, paradoxes, and paradigms
  • "Spare this life" : pleading, pardon, and the reader in Vergil's Aeneid
  • Pity, mercy, and desire : supplication and erotic psychology in Petrarch's Africa and Rerum Vilgarium Fragmenta
  • "Let us shame him with our knees" : constraint and coercion in Shakespeare's Richard II and Coriolanus
  • "Thy humiliation shall exalt" : hierarchy and reconciliation in Milton's Paradise Lost
  • Epilogue.

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