The Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre

ISBN-13: 9780367878641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 180 str.

Jane Beal

Opis

This book enhances understanding of the 14^th-century Middle English dream vision poem Pearl, arguing that the poet intended it to be read at four levels of meaning and corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. Using medieval and modern genre theo

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction: Signifying

1. Literal Sense: Desiring the Beloved

2. Allegorical Meaning: Rejoicing in Salvation

3. Moral Purpose: Consoling the Heart

4. Anagogical Revelation: Imagining Spiritual Marriage

5. Parable, Fable, Fairy-Tale: Folktale Genre Patterns in Pearl

Conclusion: Remembering

O autorze

Jane Beal, PhD is an Associate Researcher in the Department of English at the University of California, Davis. Her academic monograph, The Signifying Power of Pearl, is available from Routledge. She is also the author of John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon (ACMRS/Brepols, 2013), editor of Illuminating Moses: A History of Reception from Exodus to the Renaissance (Brill, 2014), and co-editor of Translating the Past: Essays on Medieval Literature (ACMRS, 2012) and Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl (MLA, forthcoming). In addition to literary criticism and studies of collegiate pedagogy, she writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction and composes new work in translation. To learn more, please visit sanctuarypoet.net and medievalpearl.wordpress.com.