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The Principles of Allegory and Symbolism Illustrated by the Middle English Poem Pearl

Author: Anthony Edward Farnham
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Languages : en
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The Principles of Allegory and Symbolism Illustrated by the Middle English Poem Pearl

Author: Anthony Edward Farnham
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Languages : en
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Pearl, Image of the Ineffable

Author: Theodore Bogdanos
Publisher: Penn State University Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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A new interpretation of the rich and highly complex medieval English poem Pearl is presented in this book. Medieval symbolism as a whole, especially the artistic problem of representing the apocalyptic and the ineffable, gains illumination from the author's approach. Deriving its critical premises from medieval aesthetics and symbolic theory, the book employs two key metaphoric concepts: the anagogic dissimilar similitude and the incarnational symbol. The former emphasizes the incongruity between the finite means and the infinite object of representation, physical image and spiritual essence, the human and the divine. The incarnational symbol seeks the reconciliation of these opposing natures on a sacramental level. The Pearl Poet, like Dante, translates the tension among levels of perception--sensory, affective, intellectual --into an existential drama. Pearl presents man and God as antagonists in a drama of faith, the pearl as a symbol for the kingdom of God--a symbol at once alluring and terrifying. Through the experience of the poem's chief character, the dreamer, the reader learns the Eucharistic reconciliation: "divine pleasure takes on the warm familiarity of earthly pleasure, and earthly pleasure is redeemed and elevated to its ideal form, which is in God."

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Author: Theodore Bogdanos
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Symbolism, Allegory, and Autobiography in the Pearl

Author: William Henry Schofield
Publisher:
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Category : Pearl (Middle English poem)
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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The Pearl-poet: His Complete Works

Author: Margaret Anne Williams
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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For contents, see Author Catalog.

The Arbor of Wisdom: an Essay on The Pearl

Author: Donald W. Fritz
Publisher:
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Category : Pearl (Middle English poem)
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Dissertations in English and American Literature

Author: Laurence F. McNamee
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Comprehensive Dissertation Index, 1861-1972: Language and literature

Author: Xerox University Microfilms
Publisher:
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Comprehensive Dissertation Index

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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National Union Catalog

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Includes entries for maps and atlases.