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

1st Edition

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

By Jane Beal Copyright 2017
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl . Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allegory; morally, a... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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