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... fables so minutely that Ovid's overarching fable and fiction were scarcely seen . According to Aristotle's theory , however , which carried the weight and authority of classical anti- quity , the fable ( in Sidneyan terms , the " fore ...
... fables so minutely that Ovid's overarching fable and fiction were scarcely seen . According to Aristotle's theory , however , which carried the weight and authority of classical anti- quity , the fable ( in Sidneyan terms , the " fore ...
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... fables are less ancient than these Christian fables . Read in the latter way , Milton's lines afford the same literary ... Fable and old Song . " Bloom's sense of anxiety alerts us to see Milton's allusions to his pagan predeces- sors as ...
... fables are less ancient than these Christian fables . Read in the latter way , Milton's lines afford the same literary ... Fable and old Song . " Bloom's sense of anxiety alerts us to see Milton's allusions to his pagan predeces- sors as ...
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... fables concerning a primitive human paradise . A critical dif- ference here from Ovid's use of such source material is the way the Miltonic narrator , confident that his biblical fable is superior to all others , foregrounds the ...
... fables concerning a primitive human paradise . A critical dif- ference here from Ovid's use of such source material is the way the Miltonic narrator , confident that his biblical fable is superior to all others , foregrounds the ...
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