A Critical Edition of Alexander's Ross's 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or The Muses Interpreter

Buch | Hardcover

660 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-02276-1 (ISBN)

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First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific. The critical edition brought this text alongside its counterparts, Cartari’s Imagini and Comes’ Mythologia, which had in recent years begun to receive the scholarly recognition they deserve. It constituted a preliminary essay at defining a distinctively English approach to mythological studies by focusing on the only original myth handbook produced in Renaissance England which in scope and intent may be placed next to the great compilations of the Continent.

John R. Glenn

Part I. Introduction. 1. Alexander Ross. 2. The Renaissance Mythographical Tradition. 3. Mythography in England. 4. Mystagogus Poeticus. 5. Composition and Text. Part II. Mystagogus Poeticus, or the Muses Interpreter.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2019
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	1365 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-02276-1 / 0367022761
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02276-1 / 9780367022761
Zustand	Neuware