Year: 1981
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In the legend of Courtesie, however, Greek romance is not simply a source of fictional material for allegory, but an enlivening influence on Spenser's art of romance. Here Spenser attempts an elaborate re-creation of the major narrative motifs, the uses of Fortune, the structure, and the tonality of the Greek romance. The result is a romance mode that works as a rich metaphor of experience which surveys reality from a perspective born out of a meaningful debate between the Art of chivalric idealism and the Nature of the sensory world of the Greek romance.
Author: Marianthe Y. Hadgopoulos
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2789746495