The Pervasive Image
The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausiàs March
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1985
XII, 220 pages
978-90-272-7952-1 (ISBN)
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It is tempting to speculate that had Ausias March (1397-1459) written in Spanish instead Catalan, or rather the Valencian form of it which was his native tongue, he would by now undoubtedly be more widely recognised as the finest lyric poet in the Iberian Peninsula before the sixteenth century, and as one of the greatest in fifteenth century Europe as a whole. This study concerns one aspect of March's poetry: his use of analogy. March's poetry provides a large and varied working context in which to approach the simile as a poetic instrument in its own right, and it is almost as much to this broad aim as to the more specific matter of the use and function of the similes and allied forms of analogy in March's work that this study is addressed. Partly with the non-specialist reader in mind-someone with an interest in simile but not necessarily a direct concern with March-the quotations in Provencal and Catalan have been translated.
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Content
- THE PERVASIVE IMAGE The Role of Analogy in the Poetry of Ausiàs March
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I: The Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds to March's Analogies
- 1. The Analogical Background
- The Analogical Universe
- The Marchian Analogy and the Troubadour Tradition
- The Master/Servant Image
- The Marine Image
- Nontroubadouresque Themes
- March and the Provençal Tradition: Conclusions
- 2. Towards a Theory of Simile
- The Marchian Simile: A Fundamental Problem in Theory
- Aristotelian Theory of Simile and Metaphor
- Classical Theory: Simile, Metaphor, and Allegory
- The Flors del Gay Saber: Simile and Allegoria
- Simile and Exemplum
- Some Modern Theories of Metaphor
- The "Interaction" Theory of Metaphor
- An "Interactive" Theory of Simile
- PART II: Functions of the Analogy
- 3. Emotive and Explicative Functions
- The Emotive Effect
- New Metaphors for Old
- The Explicative Function
- 4. Prefiguring the Occasion
- Prefiguring the Occasion
- Cants de Mort XCIII, XCIV
- 5. Tactics in Persuasion
- The Effect of Implication
- The Deflection and Redirection of Moral Responsibility
- The Sophistic Argument
- 6. The Moral Perspective
- The Implication of the Moral Context
- 7. Some Further Aspects of March's Use of Analogy
- The Unsatisfactory Analogy
- A Special Problem: Allegory in LXVIII
- Use and Non-Use of Analogy
- 8. Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index to Poems
