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Allegory and enchantment : an early modern poetics /

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Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's 'Piers Plowman', John Skelton's 'The Bowge of Courte', Edmun...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crawford, Jason (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Allegory.
Allégorie.
allegories (literary genre)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Allegory
English literature > Early modern
1500-1700
Electronic books.
Allegories
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Allegories.
Allégories.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Allegory and Enchantment: An Early Modern Poetics; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: A Poetics of Enchantment; 1: Genealogies of Allegory; 2: Incarnations of the Word: Piers Plowman; 3: Suspicion and Solitude: The Bowge of Courte; 4: Violence and Apocalypse: The Faerie Queene; 5: Selfhood and Secularity: The Pilgrimś Progress; Bibliography; Index.