In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory /

In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory / / Madeleine Kasten.

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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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Superior document:Costerus ; new ser., 168
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Kasten, Madeleine.
Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Costerus ; new ser., v. 168.
Physical Description:1 online resource (258 p.)
Notes:"Originated in a dissertation project ... "--P. [9].
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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