ENG-308 Renaissance Epic

GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts)
Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar
The nature and purpose of the epic in the European Renaissance through a close study of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Renaissance theories of allegory and genre and the cultural work of these epics are explored. 4 credits.