Luís de Camões: the poet as scriptural exegete

Second in its fame only to the Lusiads within Camões's large body of poetry, "Sôbolos rios" ("Babylon and Zion") in <I>redondilhas</I> is a philosophically ambitious masterwork of Christian humanism that draws from the psalm <I>Super flumina Babylonis</I...

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Main Author: Fleming, John V. 1936- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2017
Series:Colección Támesis 367
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Summary:Second in its fame only to the Lusiads within Camões's large body of poetry, "Sôbolos rios" ("Babylon and Zion") in <I>redondilhas</I> is a philosophically ambitious masterwork of Christian humanism that draws from the psalm <I>Super flumina Babylonis</I> both a general theory of poetry and an intensely focused meditation upon the shape of an individual poet's career. Bringing to bear upon the poem the several learned traditions the poet demands, Fleming's study relates the poem to the traditions of allegorical scriptural exegesis characteristic of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Specific subjects include the centrality of the psalms and the image of David to European poets, the relation of pagan myth to biblical truth, the complexity and purposefulness of Camoes's intertextual strategies, the underappreciated influence on Camões of Juan Boscán, the exegetical control of the poem's elaborate numerological schemes, and the concept of palinode as literary genre and personal moral statement.John V. Fleming is the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University
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Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 219 Seiten)
ISBN:9781787440210

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