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Allegory and Enchantment: An Early Modern Poetics
Jason Crawford
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Description for Allegory and Enchantment: An Early Modern Poetics
Hardcover. 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, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 277 x 21. Weight in Grams: 402.
What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking away from an array of old idols: magic, superstition, tradition, the sacramental, the medieval. Many of these writers persistently use metaphors of disenchantment, of awakening from a broken spell, to describe their ... Read more
What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering,in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking away from an array of old idols: magic, superstition, tradition, the sacramental, the medieval. Many of these writers persistently use metaphors of disenchantment, of awakening from a broken spell, to describe their ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
401g
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198788041
SKU
V9780198788041
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About Jason Crawford
Jason Crawford (PhD, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of English at Union University, where he teaches and writes about early modern literature and culture. His essays have appeared in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Religion & Literature, and English Studies.
Reviews for Allegory and Enchantment: An Early Modern Poetics
This challenging study will leave readers thinking long and hard about the tension between truth-telling and story-telling and how we define our relation to the past.
John Farrell, Los Angeles Review of Books
Crawford's readings are generally illuminating ... Jason Crawford's Allegory and Enchantment is an intelligent and ambitious work that confirms its author's knowledge of the relevant ... Read more
John Farrell, Los Angeles Review of Books
Crawford's readings are generally illuminating ... Jason Crawford's Allegory and Enchantment is an intelligent and ambitious work that confirms its author's knowledge of the relevant ... Read more