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... function simultaneously to organize the meaning of Dante's massive poem . Yet in every case these arrangements are subject to the nature of the poem's ulti- mate end , the traveller's destination . Within the terms of this metaphor ...
... function simultaneously to organize the meaning of Dante's massive poem . Yet in every case these arrangements are subject to the nature of the poem's ulti- mate end , the traveller's destination . Within the terms of this metaphor ...
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... function the travel metaphor approaches an allegorical use , though only in a vague and gene- ral sense , for there is no attempt at a coherent , extended system of equation between mental and external landscape . It is , of course , as ...
... function the travel metaphor approaches an allegorical use , though only in a vague and gene- ral sense , for there is no attempt at a coherent , extended system of equation between mental and external landscape . It is , of course , as ...
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... function of this first storm , it would seem , is rather that of a configuration of the elements , as part of the general myth - making process of the poem , to bring out their personified and animated force . The noises and elemental ...
... function of this first storm , it would seem , is rather that of a configuration of the elements , as part of the general myth - making process of the poem , to bring out their personified and animated force . The noises and elemental ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
The Traditional Metaphor | 15 |
The Metaphor | 75 |
Copyright | |
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