Seeing Through the Veil : Optical Theory and Medieval Allegory /

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"In Seeing through the Veil, Suzanne Conklin Akbari examines several late medieval allegories in the context of contemporary paradigm shifts in scientific and philosophical theories of vision." "Offering a new interdisciplinary, synthetic approach to late medieval intellectual history...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Akbari, Suzanne Conklin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2004]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Allegorie
Literatur
Optics in literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Allegory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Optique dans la litterature.
Allegorie.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Italienisch.
Mittelenglisch.
Mittelfranzösisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Illumination and language
  • The multiplication of forms
  • Guillaume de Lorris's Roman de la rose
  • Jean de Meun's Roman de la rose
  • Dante's Vita nuova and convivio
  • Dante's commedia
  • Chaucer's dream visions
  • Chaucer's personification and vestigial allegory in the Canterbury tales
  • Division in darkness.

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