Great Plays, Sophocles to Albee

Literature & Fiction

Bloomfield, Morton W.

Dramas & Plays

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Format Hardcover Subject Language Arts Disciplines Publisher Greenwood Press

A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English

Politics & Social Sciences

Newmark, Leonard

Social Sciences

Praeger

Studies linguistic problems that affect social and cultural life through discussions of the variety, functions, and learning of language.

Language As a Human Problem

Reference

Haugen, Einar

Foreign Language Study & Reference

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

After a long period of neglect and even disdain, allegory and myth in the broadest sense are coming again into their own as central tools to the understanding of literary art. The essays in this volume, ranging in time from the Middle Ages to the present and in subject from poetry to philosophy, explore the multiple interpretations of allegory, as well as the important distinctions among allegory, myth, and symbol.Besides assisting in the understanding of particular literary works and authors, this book makes a worthy contribution to comprehension of the major role allegory plays in literature and indeed in life.Among the nineteen essays are “‘Awaking Dream’: The Symbolic Alternative to Allegory,” by Murray Krieger; “The Modern Revival of Myth,” by James Engell; “The Two Allegories,” by J. Hillis Miller; “The ‘Rhythm of Metaphor’: Yeats, Pound, Eliot and the Unity of Image in Postsymbolist Poetry,” by Ronald Bush; and “Sartor Resartus and the Inverse Sublime: The Art of Humorous Deconstruction,” by Peter Allan Dale.

Allegory, Myth, and Symbol (Harvard English Studies)

Harvard University Press

Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature

British & Irish

Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure.  He (or sometimes she) supports the ruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knows how to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances.     In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts.  The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.

The Role of the Poet in Early Societies

Dunn, Charles W.

History & Criticism

D.S.Brewer

<p>This study draws on a wide range of texts — early Irish, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, Early Norse, Old English —to illustrate the role of the poet as a tool of power, as seer, and as ceremonial figure.</p>

Seven Deadly Sins : An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept, with Special Reference to Medieval English Literature

Michigan State Univ Pr

An invaluable reference work cataloguing incipits of Latin works on the Virtues and Vices, with lists of manuscripts.

Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100 - 1500 A.D. (Medieval Academy Books)

Medieval Academy of America

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