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Medieval allegory as epistemology : dream-vision poetry on language, cognition, and experience /

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This volume shows how late medieval dream-poetry explored problems arising from the reception of Aristotle's philosophical work concerning human knowledge. Marco Nievergelt explores how the work of three medieval poets in the genre of allegorical fiction addressed these problems in distinctive,...

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Main Author: Nievergelt, Marco (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023].
Series:Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:
Jean, > de Meun, > approximately 1240-approximately 1305. > Romant de la Rose moralisé.
Guillaume, > de Deguileville, > active 14th century. > Pèlerinage de vie humaine.
Langland, William, > 1330?-1400? > Piers Plowman.
French poetry > To 1500 > History and criticism.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Poetry > Psychological aspects.
Dreams in literature.

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