Love and its critics : from the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden / Michael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryson, Michael, 1964- author.

Movsesian, Arpi, 1987- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love poetry--History and criticism.

Love poetry.

Courtly love in literature.

Courtly love--History.

Courtly love.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (564 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Open Book Publishers 2017

Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

A Note on Sources and Languages

1. Love and Authority: Love Poetry and its Critics ; I. The Poetry of Love ; II. Love's Nemesis: Demands for Obedience ; III. Love's Critics: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Authoritarian Approach to Criticism ; IV. The Critics: Poetry Is About Poetry ; V. The Critics: The Author Is Dead (or Merely Irrelevant)

2. Channeled, Reformulated, and Controlled: Love Poetry from the Song of Songs to Aeneas and Dido ; I. Love Poetry and the Critics who Allegorize: The Song of Songs ; II. Love Poetry and the Critics who Reduce: Ovid's Amores and Ars Amatoria ; III. Love or Obedience in Virgil: Aeneas and Dido ; IV. Love or Obedience in Ovid: Aeneas, Dido, and the Critics who Dismiss

3. Love and its Absences in Late Latin and Greek Poetry ; I. Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Latin ; II. Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Greek

4. The Troubadours and Fin'amor: Love, Choice, and the Individual ; I. Why "Courtly Love" Is Not Love ; II. The Troubadours and Their Critics ; III. The Troubadours and Love

5. Fin'amor Castrated: Abelard, Heloise, and the Critics who Deny

6. The Albigensian Crusade and the Death of Fin'amor in Medieval French and English Poetry ; I. The Death of Fin'amor: The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath ; II. Post-Fin'amor French Poetry: The Roman de la Rose ; III. Post-Fin'amor English Romance: Love of God and Country in Havelok the Dane and King Horn ; IV. Post-Fin'amor English Poetry: Mocking "Courtly Love" in Chaucer

the Knight and the Miller ; V. Post-Fin'amor English Poetry: Mocking "Auctoritee" in Chaucer

the Wife of Bath

7. The Ladder of Love in Italian Poetry and Prose, and the Reactions of the Sixteenth-Century Sonneteers ; I. The Platonic Ladder of Love ; II. Post-Fin'amor Italian Poetry: The Sicilian School to Dante and Petrarch ; III. Post-Fin'amor Italian Prose: Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) ; IV. The Sixteenth-Century: Post-Fin'amor Transitions in Petrarchan-Influenced Poetry

8. Shakespeare: The Return of Fin'amor ; I. The Value of the Individual in the Sonnets ; II. Shakespeare's Plays: Children as Property ; III. Love as Resistance: Silvia and Hermia ; IV. Love as Resistance: Juliet and the Critics who Disdain

9. Love and its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature ; I. Carpe Diem in Life and Marriage: John Donne and the Critics who Distance ; II. The Lyricist of Carpe Diem: Robert Herrick and the Critics who Distort

10. Paradise Lost: Love in Eden, and the Critics who Obey

Epilogue. Belonging to Poetry: A Reparative Reading

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9791036500770

9781783743513

1783743514

9781783743506

1783743506

OCLC:

1163853382

Publisher Number:

10.11647/OBP.0117

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access