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020			_z9781783743483 (Paperback)
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041	0		_aeng _afro _aita _hfro _hita
100	1		_aBryson, Michael, _d1964- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aLove and its critics _h[electronic resource] : _bfrom the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden / _cMichael Bryson and Arpi Movsesian.
264		1	_bOpen Book Publishers,
300			_a1 online resource (576 pages) : _b16 colour illustrations.
500			_aAvailable through Open Book Publishers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 513-552) and index.
505	0		_aAcknowledgements -- A Note on Sources and Languages -- 1. Love and Authority: Love Poetry and its Critics ; I. The Poetry of Love ; II. Love's Nemesis: Demands for Obedience ; III. Love's Critics: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and the Authoritarian Approach to Criticism ; IV. The Critics: Poetry Is About Poetry ; V. The Critics: The Author Is Dead (or Merely Irrelevant) -- 2. Channeled, Reformulated, and Controlled: Love Poetry from the Song of Songs to Aeneas and Dido ; I. Love Poetry and the Critics who Allegorize: The Song of Songs ; II. Love Poetry and the Critics who Reduce: Ovid's Amores and Ars Amatoria ; III. Love or Obedience in Virgil: Aeneas and Dido ; IV. Love or Obedience in Ovid: Aeneas, Dido, and the Critics who Dismiss -- 3. Love and its Absences in Late Latin and Greek Poetry ; I. Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Latin ; II. Love in the Poetry of Late Antiquity: Greek -- 4. The Troubadours and Fin'amor: Love, Choice, and the Individual ; I. Why "Courtly Love" Is Not Love ; II. The Troubadours and Their Critics ; III. The Troubadours and Love -- 5. Fin'amor Castrated: Abelard, Heloise, and the Critics who Deny -- 6. The Albigensian Crusade and the Death of Fin'amor in Medieval French and English Poetry ; I. The Death of Fin'amor: The Albigensian Crusade and its Aftermath ; II. Post-Fin'amor French Poetry: The Roman de la Rose ; III. Post-Fin'amor English Romance: Love of God and Country in Havelok the Dane and King Horn ; IV. Post-Fin'amor English Poetry: Mocking "Courtly Love" in Chaucer-the Knight and the Miller ; V. Post-Fin'amor English Poetry: Mocking "Auctoritee" in Chaucer-the Wife of Bath -- 7. The Ladder of Love in Italian Poetry and Prose, and the Reactions of the Sixteenth-Century Sonneteers ; I. The Platonic Ladder of Love ; II. Post-Fin'amor Italian Poetry: The Sicilian School to Dante and Petrarch ; III. Post-Fin'amor Italian Prose: Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) ; IV. The Sixteenth-Century: Post-Fin'amor Transitions in Petrarchan-Influenced Poetry -- 8. Shakespeare: The Return of Fin'amor ; I. The Value of the Individual in the Sonnets ; II. Shakespeare's Plays: Children as Property ; III. Love as Resistance: Silvia and Hermia ; IV. Love as Resistance: Juliet and the Critics who Disdain -- 9. Love and its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature ; I. Carpe Diem in Life and Marriage: John Donne and the Critics who Distance ; II. The Lyricist of Carpe Diem: Robert Herrick and the Critics who Distort -- 10. Paradise Lost: Love in Eden, and the Critics who Obey -- Epilogue. Belonging to Poetry: A Reparative Reading -- Bibliography -- Index.
506			_aOpen access resource providing free access.
520			_a"This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin'amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur's phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself - in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history."--Publisher's website.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web.
540			_aThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.
546			_aChiefly in English; extracts of texts including Old French and Italian with English translations; quotations in English with original language extracts in footnotes. Some extracts in Hebrew script with English translations.
650		0	_aCourtly love in literature.
650		0	_aCourtly love _xHistory.
650		0	_aLiterature _y17th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLiterature, Medieval _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLove poetry _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aLove _xSocial aspects.
700	1		_aMovsesian, Arpi, _eauthor.
710	2		_aOpen Book Publishers, _epublisher.
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