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

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 oth...

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Main Author: Kasten, Madeleine
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007
Series:Costerus ; new ser., v. 168.
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500 |a "Originated in a dissertation project ..."--Page 9 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index. 
505 0 |a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; I: 'Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On': Allegory and Dream Poetry; II: 'Musynge On This Metels': The Rhetoric of Allegorical Dynamics; III: 'The Seal Of The All-Too-Earthly': Walter Benjamin and the Dialectic of the Allegorical Sign; PART TWO; IV: Piers Plowman: Life of a Text; V: 'Speche, That Spire Is Of Grace': Piers Plowman and the Magic of Language; VI: Piers Plowman -- The Second Dream; VII: Piers Plowman -- The Fourth and Fifth Dreams; VIII: Piers Plowman -- The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Dreams; AFTERWORD: THE WILL TO 'KYNDE KNOWYNGE' 
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