Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521100090)

Challenging conventional notions that literary allegorism declined around 1600, Kenneth Borris reassesses the Renaissance relations between allegory and heroic poetry. He concentrates particularly on the major texts of Sidney, Spenser and Milton. Borris offers a fresh approach to the interaction of allegory with literary genres; focusing on epic, he further analyzes the distinctive codes and conventions that constituted the generic repertoire of Renaissance allegorical epic poetry.

Author: Kenneth Borris
ISBN-10: 0521100097
ISBN-13: 9780521100090
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/18/2009
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d