"Euhemerism and Its Uses is an inter-disciplinary volume, bringing together experts on classical, mediaeval and Renaissance literature, theory of myth and religious studies to give the first focussed and all-round view of the phenomenon across the long history of its evolution. …
Through case studies of three poets using classical allusion, imitation and translation for the purpose of oppositional polemic in seventeenth-century England, this monograph examines the political ideas behind and implications of the distinct theories of intertextuality they em…
Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there arc striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of the past. Pugh's study of th…
"Royalist polemic and a sophisticated use of classical allusion are at the heart of the two 1648 volumes which are the focus of this study, yet there arc striking differences in their politics and in the ways they represent their relation to poetry of the past. Pugh's study of t…
