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Robert 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: 132×209×23mm.
Page count: vii,235pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the dustjacket on this copy is somewhat faded, especially on its spine, with some wear on the edges and a crease on the front flyleaf; the book itself looks in reasonable order.


This item £10.00
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Weight without packaging: 432g.

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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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