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HEROES IN ROBERT BROWNING'S "THE RING AND THE BOOK": PRIEST, POPE, AND POET

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1973
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Browning' s most important concern in The Ring and the Book: is to explore the concept of heroism as it applies to modern man. This interest is manifested in the book's three priest-heroes representing three ages of man and three categories of knighthoods young, virile Caponsacchi, the fledgling Green Knight; the intellectual old Pope, an innocent White Knight; and the poised poet, the involved Red Knight of middle years. The central chapters of this paper, delineating the trials of these three knights, assess them as heroes and determine the relationship of the portraits of Caponsacchi and The Pope to the poet, while the conclusion summarizes the evolution of Browning's heroic ideal: the balanced, out-going man continually striving to encourage human communication and progress as opposed to the vain Renaissance prophet, the "overreacher," whose utilitarian excesses Mario Praz sees in nineteenth-century Comtean positivism and twentieth-century Fordism.
Title: THE HEROES IN ROBERT BROWNING'S "THE RING AND THE BOOK": PRIEST, POPE, AND POET.
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Name(s): REMILLARD, LEANORA A.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Stewart, Gwendolyn O., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 112 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Browning' s most important concern in The Ring and the Book: is to explore the concept of heroism as it applies to modern man. This interest is manifested in the book's three priest-heroes representing three ages of man and three categories of knighthoods young, virile Caponsacchi, the fledgling Green Knight; the intellectual old Pope, an innocent White Knight; and the poised poet, the involved Red Knight of middle years. The central chapters of this paper, delineating the trials of these three knights, assess them as heroes and determine the relationship of the portraits of Caponsacchi and The Pope to the poet, while the conclusion summarizes the evolution of Browning's heroic ideal: the balanced, out-going man continually striving to encourage human communication and progress as opposed to the vain Renaissance prophet, the "overreacher," whose utilitarian excesses Mario Praz sees in nineteenth-century Comtean positivism and twentieth-century Fordism.
Identifier: 13617 (digitool), FADT13617 (IID), fau:10457 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Browning, Robert,--1812-1889--Ring and the book
Heroes in literature
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