دانلود کتاب Allegorical Quests from Deguileville to Spenser
by Marco Nievergelt
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عنوان فارسی: جستجوهای تمثیلی از دگویل ویل تا اسپنسر |
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The literary motif of the "allegorical knightly quest" appears repeatedly in the literature of the late medieval/early modern period, notably in Spenser, but has hitherto been little examined. Here, in his examination of a number of sixteenth-century English allegorical-chivalric quest narratives, focussing on Spenser's Faerie Queene but including important, lesser-known works such as Stephen Bateman's Travayled Pylgrime and William Goodyear's Voyage of the Wandering Knight, the author argues that the tradition begins with the French writer Guillaume de Deguileville. His seminal Plerinage de la vie humaine was composed c.1331-1355; it was widely adapted, translated, rewritten and printed over the next centuries. Dr Nievergelt goes on to demonstrate how this essentially "medieval" literary form could be adapted to articulate reflections on changing patterns of identity, society and religion during the early modern period; and how it becomes a vehicle of self-exploration and self-fashioning during a period of profound cultural crisis.
Dr Marco Nievergelt is Lecturer (Matre Assitant) and SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) Research Fellow in the English Department at the Université de Lausanne
Table of Contents
Introduction
Homo Viator: Guillaume de Deguileville's
Chivalric Transformations in Fifteenth-Century France
Stephen Hawes: the Secularised Quest
Stephen Bateman: the Apocalytic Quest
William Goodyear: Everyman's Quest
Lewes Lewkenor: the Humanist Quest
Edmund Spenser: the Poetic Quest
Coda: Reflections on the Unfinished Quest
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