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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nievergelt, Marco, author.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams in literature.

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English poetry.

French poetry--To 1500--History and criticism.

French poetry.

Langland, William, 1330?-1400?.

Langland, William.

Pèlerinage de vie humaine (Guillaume, de Deguileville).

Piers Plowman (Langland, William).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (537 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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, non-academic terms.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture

Title Page

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Medieval Allegory: Poetry as Philosophy

2. Medieval Epistemology

3. Agency, Experience, and Subjectivity in the Later Middle Ages

4. This Book

PART I. JEAN DE MEUN

1. In the Beginning was the Rose

1. 'Une vraye mappemonde de toutes choses celestes et terriennes'

2. Jean de Meun and the Schools

3. Allegory, Signification, and Equivocation

4. The Poetics of Faux Semblant

5. The Body of Experience: Choses and Gloses, Reliques and Roses

PART II. DEGUILEVILLE

Introduction to Part II

2. Language

1. Predicatio: Allegory and the Place of Authority

2. Learning to Argue

3. Learning to Read

4. Signs and Sacraments

5. 'Parler proprement des choses […], sanz metre gloses' (RR 7049-50): Exposé sur le Roman de la Rose

3. Cognition: Theory and Practice

1. Augustine's Soul, Avicenna's Flying Man, and Deguileville's Hermeneutics of the Subject

2. Theory: Divine Illumination and Active Cognition

3. The Body of Sin and the Carnal Poetics of the Rose

4. Practice: Eyes, Ears, and the Spectre of Aristotle

5. The Long Shadow of the Rose: Didacticism, Embodiment, and Experiential Hermeneutics

4. Experience

1. Conversion I: The ABC of Grace and Will

2. Language Redeemed, Language Remade

3. Hortus Conclusus: Lyric, Stasis, and Fruition

4. 'Car les signes puent faillir' (PVH2 14,377): The fleur de lis, the Revised Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, and the Search for a Perfect Semiotics

5. The Breakdown of Language and the Experiential Subject

PART III. LANGLAND

Introduction to Part III

Langland and French Allegory

5. The Desire for Knowledge and the Experience of Conversion: (Piers Plowman B VIII-XIII.215).

6. The Experience of failure and the architecture of vision: (Piers Plowman B XIII.215-XV).

7. The ends of Experience: incarnation and apocalypse (Piers Plowman B XVI-XX).

1. Learning, Crisis, and Conversion

2. Vision and Penitence: 'to se moche and suffre more'

3. The Legitimacy of Poetry: Bidding of Bedes or Meddling with Makynges

4. Eucharistic and Sapiential Knowledge in Deguileville and Langland

5. 'Til I haue preued moore' (B XIII.183)

6. The Experience of Failure and the Architecture of Vision: (Piers Plowman B XIII.215-XV)

1. Starting Over

2. Haukyn, Guillermus, and Will

3. Willing and Longing

Makyng and Suffering

4. Vision and Re-Vision: Deguileville's and Langland's Reiterative Poetic

7. The Ends of Experience: Incarnation and Apocalypse: (Piers Plowman B XVI-XX)

1. Incarnation and Embodiment: Pilgrimage 'à rebours'

2. The Coming of Antichrist and the Ends of Allegory

3. The Ends of Allegory

4. False Conclusions

Bibliography

General Index

Index of passages, motifs, and debates relating to main poetic corpus.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Nievergelt, Marco Medieval Allegory As Epistemology

ISBN:

0-19-266582-0

0-19-266583-9

9780191944468

OCLC:

1374430124