Kenelm Foster

Luigi Pirandello

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Erich Auerbach

Charles Williams

Gianfranco Contini

Leo Spitzer

Charles Southward Singleton

Georges Poulet

Renato Poggioli

Bruno Nardi

Robert Earl Kaske

Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves

Fourteen essays which examine the problem of the relationship of poetry to belief in Dante's "The Divine Comedy".

A Collection of Critical Essays

Dante

Arthur Groos

University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies

Michael W. Twomey

If a reader of Chaucer suspects that an echo of a biblical verse may somehow depend for its meaning on traditional commentary on that verse, how does he or she go about finding the relevant commentaries? If one finds the word 'fire' in a context that suggests resonances beyond the literal, how does that reader go about learning what the traditional figurative meanings of fire were? It was to the solution of such difficulties that R.E. Kaske addressed himself in this volume setting out and analyzing the major repositories of traditional material: biblical exegesis, the liturgy, hymns and sequences, sermons and homilies, the pictorial arts, mythography, commentaries on individual authors, and a number of miscellaneous themes. An appendix deals with medieval encyclopedias. Kaske created a tool that will revolutionize research in its designated field: the discovery and interpretation of the traditional meanings reflected in medieval Christian imagery.

A Guide to Interpretation

Medieval Christian Literary Imagery

Robert Earl Kaske

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