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Inescapable Romance: Studies in the Poetics of a Mode
By (Author) Patricia A. Parker
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: general
808.8193543
Hardback
302
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
Defining "romance" as a form that simultaneously seeks and postpones a particular end, revelation, or object, Patricia Parker interprets its implications and transformations in the works of four major poets--Ariosto, Spenser, Milton, and Keats. In placing the texts within their literary and historical contexts, Professor Parker provides at once a l