The Allegory of Love

The Allegory of Love

Author: C. S. Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1107659434

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A classic study of the allegorical power of love in literature, traced through the medieval and Renaissance periods.


The Allegory of Love

The Allegory of Love

Author: Clive Staples Lewis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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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.


Collected Letters: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963

Collected Letters: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963

Author: Clive Staples Lewis

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 1844

ISBN-13: 0007113021

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This collection brings together the best of C.S. Lewis's letters, many published for the first time. Arranged in chronological order, this final volume covers the years 1950 - the year 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' was published - through to Lewis's untimely death in 1963.


The Four Loves

The Four Loves

Author: Clive Staples Lewis

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780151329168

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Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.


Latin

Latin

Author: Jürgen Leonhardt

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 0674726278

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The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present.


The Allegory of Female Authority

The Allegory of Female Authority

Author: Maureen Quilligan

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 150172956X

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The first professional female writer, Christine de Pizan (1363-1431) was widowed at age twenty-five and supported herself and her family by enlisting powerful patrons for her poetry. Her Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) is the earliest European work on women's history by a woman. An allegorical poem that revises masculine traditions, it asserts and defends the authority of women in general and of its author in particular. In this generously illustrated book, Maureen Quilligan provides a persuasive and penetrating interpretation of the Cité.


The History of Love: A Novel

The History of Love: A Novel

Author: Nicole Krauss

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2006-05-17

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0393342840

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ONE OF THE MOST LOVED NOVELS OF THE DECADE. A long-lost book reappears, mysteriously connecting an old man searching for his son and a girl seeking a cure for her widowed mother's loneliness. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn’t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book…Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family. With virtuosic skill and soaring imaginative power, Nicole Krauss gradually draws these stories together toward a climax of "extraordinary depth and beauty" (Newsday).


Spenser's Images of Life

Spenser's Images of Life

Author: C. S. Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1107691133

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This book was compiled by Alastair Fowler from notes left by C. S. Lewis at his death. It is Lewis's longest piece of literary criticism, as distinct from literary history. It approaches The Faerie Queene as a majestic pageant of the universe and nature, celebrating God as 'the glad creator', and argues that conventional views of epic and allegory must be modified if the poem is to be fully enjoyed and understood.