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One specific instance that I enjoyed was when Lewis noted how, if he were laid up in bed with a slight illness for the rest of his life, in view of the ocean, and all he had to read was Italian Epics, he would be happy. urn:lcp:allegoryoflovest00lewi:epub:5750a07a-88b7-454c-af09-006bbdea14e3 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier allegoryoflovest00lewi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1bk2nr4f Lccn 68001027 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8. Symbolism, particularly religious symbolism, is an inversion of allegory that seeks to find the deeper realities that underlay the visible. He is better known for his adult science fiction trilogy: "Out of a Silent Planet", "Perelandra", and "That Hideous Strength".
The Allegory of Love : A Study in Medieval Tradition The Allegory of Love : A Study in Medieval Tradition
His strong religious background influenced such books as "The Problem of Pain" and "The Screwtape Letters".Finishing this has gotten me closer to reading everything that Jack Lewis ever wrote, which is one of my goals for 2021. It charts the development, through literature, of the kind of romanticisation of relationships we do now, and the development of chivalry. Indeed, in Lewis’s memorable description, Spenser’s first readers would have been like that “nervous child [who] heard tales of a panel slid back at twilight in a seeming innocent manor house to reveal the pale face and thin, black body of a Jesuit” (388). He recommended that modern readers intersperse an old book with a modern book in their reading patterns.
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Allegory need not reproduce this kinship system, but it would be more honest to admit that the cuckoldry isn't an accidental byproduct, it's the reason why Platonizing symbolism is employed. Even though Troilus is a Trojan hero at war with the Greeks, for all practical purposes he is a Christian knight, “a new Launcelot” (220). With the rise of allegory, and before the rise of Thomism’s Aristotle, the medievals had to find a place for “Natura. story about love without needing allegory: “ Allegory has taught him how to dispense with allegory” [178].He was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement.
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition
The Allegory of Love, for lovers of medieval literature/poetry and romance allegory, is a must-read. Thanks, but perhaps you forgot that cuckoldry is baked into the genre of straight somatic fiction, of which Christian allegory is a subgenre. I would quibble about some points -- that there was, in the early days, so much argument that married couples could not love shows that many people disagreed with it -- but it's a good overview. In addition to the nuggets identified below, I also found myself appreciating, if not understanding, a realm of literature which had been a closed book to me. The larger context is that most of the apparent dichotomies of good and evil, light and darkness, justice and injustice are not equal and opposing realities but the opposition of a diseased, crippled, decayed version on the one.This is one of those books that if you haven't read all the works the author is analyzing, it's going to be rather hard or tedious to follow at points. As hard as it was to get through this book because it was hard for someone of my ignorance to stay interested, the main concepts Lewis presents are brilliant and have inspired me to learn more about poetry. In particular, Lewis suggests that the depth structure of Spenser's Faerie Queene doesn't correspond to the surface structure.
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The Allegory of Love is a scholarly book, but I think it can be read with enjoyment by anyone interested in medieval poetry.Rather than an opposition between nature and grace, Lewis notes, “Nature appears, not to be corrected by grace, but as the goddess and vicaria of God, herself correcting the unnatural” (111). He explains it is realistic but not in a representative or illustrative sense, it contains characters that bear no resemblance to the sort of characters produced by this world and by virtue of this attribute are not relatable or empathy inspiring, but rather his characters, the world they inhabit, and the description of the events that occur therein produces in the reader a feeling that nearly approximates the feeling produced by living in the real world. Yet, at least from the parts analyzing books that I'd actually read, it really is quite a good book--and it's neat to see Lewis as the literary critic, not simply as the theologian or novelist.
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