| Description |
xv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 664 |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 664
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| Contents |
[Part one : refractive] -- Faith in the darkness : allegorical theory and Aldhelm's obscurity / Kevin R. Dungey -- Dante's Vergil, the liberal arts and the ascent to God / Barbara Nolan -- The premature hermeneutics of Piers Plowman B / David G. Allen -- Patterns of the negative in Piers Plowman / Eugene Green -- William Langland and Jean Piaget / Stephen Manning -- [Part two : reflective] -- The pilgrim in the poem : Dante, Langland, and Chaucer / Julia Bolton Holloway -- Trasitio and psychoallegoresis in Piers Plowman / Joan Heiges Blythe -- The crisis of convention in Cocytus : allegory and history / R.A. Shoaf -- A seme in the integument : allegory in the Hous of fame / J. Stephen Russell -- Myth, allegory, and vision in the Parlement of foules : a study in Chaucerian problem solving / Paul Piehler -- Afterword / Julian N. Wasserman |
| Analysis |
Poetry in European languages, 1200-1400. Allegory |
| Notes |
(Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 664) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Symbolism.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Symbolism.
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Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.
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English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Rhetoric, Medieval.
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| Genre/Form |
Allegories.
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| Author |
Russell, J. Stephen.
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| LC no. |
86033595 |
| ISBN |
0824085655 |
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