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Secondhand book for saleRobert L. Montgomery.
The Reader’s Eye: Studies in Didactic Literary Theory from Dante to Tasso.
Published Berkeley: California U.P., 1979.
ISBN 0520037006.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Size: 132x209x23mm.
Page count: vii,235pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy has some fading, mainly to the spine, with a little wear to the edges and a crease to the front flyleaf; book in overall good condition.
This item £10.00
P&P inc. within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)Weight without packaging: 432g.
Contents:
Faculty psychology & theories of imagination — Aristotle, Plato, Augustine, & Aquinas;
Dante’s esthetic of grace & the reader’s imagination;
Universals & particulars — Fracastoro & Barbaro;
Sidney’s Apology for Poetry (ca. 1581-3);
Tasso's Discourses on the Heroic Poem (1594).
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