BookRags.com Literature Guides Literature Guides Criticism/Essays Criticism/Essays Biographies Biographies My Bibliography Periodic Table U.S. Presidents Shakespeare Sonnet Shake-Up
Research Anything:        
History | Encyclopedias | Films | News | Create a Bibliography | More... Login | Register | Help

Search "The Allegory of Love"

 


The Allegory of Love

Print-Friendly
About 5 pages (1,625 words) in 3 products

"The Allegory of Love" Search Results
Contents:
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
summary from source:
The Allegory of Love Information
644 words, approx. 2 pages
The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (1936), by C. S. Lewis, is an influential exploration of the allegorical treatment of love in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. In the first chapter, Lewis traces the development of the idea of...


News and Journals
summary from source:

Denver Rocky Mountain News
`love Story, Allegory, Fable, Morality Tale'
03/28/1997: 451 words, approx. 2 pages
Marian M. Ramsey Denver Rocky Mountain News 03-28-1997 'LOVE STORY, ALLEGORY, FABLE, MORALITY TALE' The Woman and the Ape By Peter Joeg. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. 261 pp., $23. Madelene, to put it...
summary from source:

The Village Voice
Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice
07/12/2006: 827 words, approx. 3 pages
Grace, Depravity, and Grandeur The Venetian Renaissance by way of ancient Greece and Cecil B. DeMille Veronese's Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street Through July 16 A powerful contradiction verging...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Ruth Z. Temple
686 words, approx. 2 pages
Mr. C. S. Lewis [in The Allegory of Love] was moved to attack the personal heresy in modern criticism. The first essay in the elegant small book is his spirited, and to some extent salutary, denunciation of contemporary critics and readers who regard poetry as a means of contact with the poet's personality. So shocking does this seem to Mr. Lewis, that he has boldly taken up the extreme negative position: "… when we read poetry as poetry should be read, we have before us no representati...
summary from source:
Critical Essay by Albert Guerard, Jr.
295 words, approx. 1 pages
Too frequently the professional historian is not a good scholar because he wholly ignores esthetic considerations. Mr. C. S. Lewis, in his study of allegory and courtly love ["The Allegory of Love"], shows himself to be even more a man of letters than a literary historian. But as a literary historian he suffers from the defect of his qualities. Time and again he deserts his real subject, the history of allegory as a form and courtly love as a sentiment, for long excursions into pure esthetic c...


The Allegory of Love Study Pack

Get the complete The Allegory of Love Study Pack, which includes everything on this page. Approximately 5 pages (at 300 words per page) in 2 products.

 Please Note: Study Pack does not include any HighBeam content.

This Study Pack Contains:
1 Encyclopedia Article
2 Literature Criticism Essays
Multiple Formats Available:

· online web format
· "print-friendly" format
· downloadable PDF format
· downloadable Word/RTF format
Available Immediately Online
 

The Allegory of Love

Print-Friendly
About 5 pages (1,625 words) in 3 products


Join BookRagslearn moreJoin BookRags


About BookRags | Customer Service | Report an Error | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy