| The Allegory of Love Contributor(s): Lewis, C. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107659434 ISBN-13: 9781107659438 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $26.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 809.1 |
| LCCN: 2013498106 |
| Series: Canto Classics |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (1.50 lbs) 488 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Allegory of Love is a landmark study of a powerful and influential medieval conception. C. S. Lewis explores the sentiment called 'courtly love' and the allegorical method within which it developed in literature and thought, from its first flowering in eleventh-century Languedoc through to its transformation and gradual demise at the end of the sixteenth century. Lewis devotes particular attention to the major poems The Romance of the Rose and The Faerie Queene, and to poets including Chaucer, Gower and Thomas Usk. |