In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory / / Madeleine Kasten.
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,...
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Kasten, Madeleine. In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory / Madeleine Kasten. 1st ed. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007. 1 online resource (258 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr data file rda Bibliography Costerus ; new ser., 168 English Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ‘SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON’: ALLEGORY AND DREAM POETRY -- ‘MUSYNGE ON THIS METELS’: THE RHETORIC OF ALLEGORICAL DYNAMICS -- ‘THE SEAL OF THE ALL-TOO-EARTHLY’: WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE DIALECTIC OF THE ALLEGORICAL SIGN -- PIERS PLOWMAN: LIFE OF A TEXT -- ‘SPECHE, THAT SPIRE IS OF GRACE’: PIERS PLOWMAN AND THE MAGIC OF LANGUAGE -- PIERS PLOWMAN – THE SECOND DREAM -- PIERS PLOWMAN – THE FOURTH AND FIFTH DREAMS -- PIERS PLOWMAN – THE SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH DREAMS -- AFTERWORD: THE WILL TO ‘KYNDE KNOWYNGE’ -- APPENDIX -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES. 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 ultimate ground of all meaning. If art and doctrine appear so divided on the subject of allegory in our own day, then might not the relationship between allegorical writing and interpretation in the Middle Ages have been more complex than is often assumed? How solid are the grounds on which Michel Foucault has based his distinction between early modernity and its past - a time when, he claims, the languages of the world were still perceived to make up “the image of the truth”? The present study addresses these and related questions through a heuristic comparison between historically and culturally different approaches to narrative allegory. In her analysis of the late-fourteenth century dream poem Piers Plowman by William Langland, Kasten sets up a critical dialogue between this extraordinary work and Walter Benjamin's study of German baroque allegory, The Origin of German Tragic Drama . Far from serving the narrow purposes of didacticism, she contends, Piers Plowman invites a reconsideration of the very grounds on which (post-) modernity has tried to distance itself from its cultural past. "Originated in a dissertation project ... "--P. [9]. Includes bibliographical references and index. Allegory. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Poetry. Christian poetry, English (Middle) Dreams in literature. Dreams Poetry. Visions Poetry. Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman. 90-420-2173-X Costerus ; new ser., v. 168. |
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Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ‘SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON’: ALLEGORY AND DREAM POETRY -- ‘MUSYNGE ON THIS METELS’: THE RHETORIC OF ALLEGORICAL DYNAMICS -- ‘THE SEAL OF THE ALL-TOO-EARTHLY’: WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE DIALECTIC OF THE ALLEGORICAL SIGN -- PIERS PLOWMAN: LIFE OF A TEXT -- ‘SPECHE, THAT SPIRE IS OF GRACE’: PIERS PLOWMAN AND THE MAGIC OF LANGUAGE -- PIERS PLOWMAN – THE SECOND DREAM -- PIERS PLOWMAN – THE FOURTH AND FIFTH DREAMS -- PIERS PLOWMAN – THE SIXTH, SEVENTH, AND EIGHTH DREAMS -- AFTERWORD: THE WILL TO ‘KYNDE KNOWYNGE’ -- APPENDIX -- ABBREVIATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF NAMES. |
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