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The sacred game : the role of the sacred in the genesis of modern literary fiction
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The sacred game : the role of the sacred in the genesis of modern literary fiction

Author: Cesáreo Bandera
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cesáreo Bandera
ISBN: 027101301X 9780271013015 0271013028 9780271013022 0271011017 9780271011011 0271011025 9780271011028
OCLC Number: 28710604
Description: ix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. On "Sacred Allergy" in Its Modern Form. 2. The Divine Comedy as a Contrasting Background. 3. What Is the Sacred? 4. Christian Desacralization. 5. Christianity and Modern Poetic Fiction. 6. The Trajectory of This Book -- 1. Beyond Plato. 1. Revisiting Plato's Expulsion of the Poets and the Renaissance "War Against Poetry" 2. Plato's Sacred Anxiety. 3. Similarities and Differences. 4. The Role of Poetry in an Increasingly Desacralized Reality -- 2. Beyond Aristotle. 1. The Questionable Influence of Aristotle's Poetics. 2. The Old Science and the "Howls of Hungry Acheron" 3. The Poetics and the Sacred. 4. The New Spirit of Science: Francis Bacon, the "Herald of the New Time" 5. Truth or Fiction: The New Dilemma of the Renaissance Theoretician. 6. A Humble Way out of the Impasse -- 3. Beyond Virgil. 1. Changing Views on the Aeneid. 2. Sacrificial Levels in Virgil's Poem. 3. Palinuru's Deliberate Contradiction of Textual Evidence. 4. The Shining and Deceiving Ivory Exit from Hell.
Responsibility: Cesáreo Bandera.

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