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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Costerus ; new ser., 168 |
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 168.
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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' |
| Summary |
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 other signs, has declared all language liable to the 'allegorical condition'. This paradox has led the author to question the epistemological assumptions underlying allegories composed in an era which, conversely, favoured the oblique form of expression while professing its belief in the divine Logos as the ultim |
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"Originated in a dissertation project ..."--Page 9 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index |
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
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Langland, William. Piers Plowman. swd |
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Piers Plowman (Langland, William) fast |
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Allegory.
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Dreams in literature.
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Dreams -- Poetry
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Visions -- Poetry
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry
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Christian poetry, English (Middle)
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Allegory
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Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Christian poetry, English (Middle)
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Dreams
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Dreams in literature
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Visions
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Allegorie
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Poetry
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poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429480970 |
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1429480971 |
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904202173X |
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9789042021730 |
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9401204144 |
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9789401204149 |
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