The Idea of the Labyrinth: From Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
Penelope Reed Doob
The author guides the steps of the reader-wanderer trough the inextricability of a western cultures central idea. The book is focused in textual labyrinths and philosophical mazes. Original and audacious application of the idea of the labyrinth to medieval literary theory enligthens the paths that leads from Virgil, Chaucer, Dante or Boethius through our very times -if the reader takes Reed Doob's Thread of Ariadne and continues her pioneer Daedalian adventure.
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Рік:
1992
Видання:
1st
Видавництво:
Cornell University Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
376
ISBN 10:
0801480000
ISBN 13:
9780801480003
Файл:
PDF, 33.92 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1992