Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth / Ann W. Astell.
Calling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s Consolation of Philosophy-texts closely associated with each other in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1994. ©1994. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 1994 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 240 p. ) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Allegories of Logos and Eros
- 2. Boethius and Epic Truth
- 3. Job and Heroic Virtue
- 4. Hagiographic Romance
- 5. Boethian Lovers
- 6. Ghostly Chivalry
- 7. The Miltonic Trilogy
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index