In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory /

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Readers today no longer relish sustained allegorical narratives the way they did in the Middle Ages, when the art of 'other-speaking' was as dominant in poetic discourse as it was elsewhere. Yet we live in an age which, following the postmodernist dictum that any sign can only refer to oth...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kasten, Madeleine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Costerus ; new ser., v. 168.
Temas:
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Piers Plowman.
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Piers the Plowman.
Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
Allegory.
Dreams in literature.
Dreams > Poetry.
Visions > Poetry.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages > Poetry.
Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Allégorie.
Rêves dans la littérature.
Rêves > Poésie.
Visions > Poésie.
Pèlerinages chrétiens > Poésie.
Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais)
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Dreams.
Visions.
Poetry.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; I: 'Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On': Allegory and Dream Poetry; II: 'Musynge On This Metels': The Rhetoric of Allegorical Dynamics; III: 'The Seal Of The All-Too-Earthly': Walter Benjamin and the Dialectic of the Allegorical Sign; PART TWO; IV: Piers Plowman: Life of a Text; V: 'Speche, That Spire Is Of Grace': Piers Plowman and the Magic of Language; VI: Piers Plowman
  • The Second Dream; VII: Piers Plowman
  • The Fourth and Fifth Dreams; VIII: Piers Plowman
  • The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Dreams; AFTERWORD: THE WILL TO 'KYNDE KNOWYNGE'

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