In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory
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In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory
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- In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory
- Title remainder
- Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory
- Statement of responsibility
- Madeleine Kasten
- Subject
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- Allegory
- Allegory
- Allégorie
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)
- Christian poetry, English (Middle)
- Dreams
- Dreams -- Poetry
- Dreams in literature
- Dreams in literature
- Electronic books
- Langland, William, 1330?-1400?
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Piers Plowman (Langland, William)
- Poetry
- Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais)
- Pèlerinages chrétiens -- Poésie
- Rêves -- Poésie
- Rêves dans la littérature
- Visions
- Visions -- Poetry
- Visions -- Poésie
- Language
- eng
- 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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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 821/.1
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PR2017.A5
- LC item number
- K373 2007eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Costerus
- Series volume
- new ser., 168
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