Political allegory in late medieval England /
Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era-among them, William Langland, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Gawain-poet-offered in their works of fiction timely c...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1999.
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctvj4sxgn |
Sommario:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Materia of Allegorical Invention""; ""2 “Full of Enigmas�: John Ball�s Letters and Piers Plowman""; ""3 Gower�s Arion and “Cithero�""; ""4 Chaucer�s Ricardian Allegories""; ""5 Penitential Politics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Richard II, Richard of Arundel, and Robert de Vere""; ""6 Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and Malory�s Guenevere at the Stake""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""