Word Play and the Interpretation of 'Pearl'
Author | : Edward Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Pearl (Middle English poem) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward Wilson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Pearl (Middle English poem) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louise Dunlap Mendillo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry R. Rupp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1955 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Stanbury |
Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2001-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1580444202 |
Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's haunting novel, Mama Day, where the crossing-over moves into a place of memory and hope, the nostalgic space of home as well as Beulah or Eden, the earthly paradise."
Author | : Jane Beal |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317194268 |
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 consolation; and anagogically, a revelation. The book addresses cruxes and scholarly debates about the poem’s genre and meaning, including key questions that have been unresolved in Pearl studies for over a century: * What is the nature of the relationship between the Dreamer and the Maiden? * What is the significance of allusions to Ovidian love stories and the use of liturgical time in the poem? * How does avian symbolism, like that of the central symbol of the pearl, develop, transform, and add meaning throughout the dream vision? * What is the nature of God portrayed in the poem, and how does the portrayal of the Maiden’s intimate relationship to God, her spiritual marriage to the Lamb, connect to the poet’s purpose in writing? Noting that the poem is open to many interpretations, Beal also considers folktale genre patterns in Pearl, including those drawn from parable, fable, and fairy-tale. The conclusion considers Pearl in the light of modern psychological theories of grieving and trauma. This book makes a compelling case for re-reading Pearl and recognizing the poem’s signifying power. Given the ongoing possibility of new interpretations, it will appeal to those who specialize in Pearl as well as scholars of Middle English, Medieval Literature, Genre Theory, and Literature and Religion.
Author | : Michael West |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0821413244 |
Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of "etymology." New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay. Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened "romantic irony." Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their zest for oracular wordplay. Their search for a primal language lurking beneath all natural languages provided them with something like a secret language that encodes their meanings. To fathom their essentially comic masterpieces we must decipher it. Interpreting Thoreau as an ironic moralist, satirist, and social critic rather than a nature-loving mystic, Transcendental Wordplay suggests that the major American Romantics shared a surprising conservatism. In this award-winning study, Professor West rescues the pun from critical contempt and allows readers to enjoy it as a serious form of American humor.
Author | : Laura Lambdin |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2002-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0313011117 |
Old and Middle English literature can be obscure and challenging. So, too, can the vast body of criticism it has elicited. Yet the masters of medieval literature often drew on similar texts, since imitation was admired. For this reason, recent scholarship has often focused on the importance of genre. The genre in which a work was written can illuminate the author's intentions and the text's meaning. Read in light of a genre's parameters, a given work can be considered in relation to other works within the same category. This reference is a comprehensive overview of Old and Middle English literature. Chapters focus on particular genres, such as Allegorical Verse, Balladry, Beast Fable, Chronicle, Debate Poetry, Epic and Heroic, Lyric, Middle English Parody/Burlesque, Religious and Allegorical Verse, and Romance. Expert contributors define the primary characteristics of each genre and discuss relevant literary works. Chapters provide extensive reviews of scholarship and close with detailed bibliographies. A more thorough bibliography of major scholarly studies closes the book.
Author | : Edwin William Streeter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Beads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sally Murphy |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2011-08-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763648213 |
Since Pearl's grandmother's became seriously ill, Pearl's world view has changed, causing her to feel like an island in school, isolated and alone, especially when her teacher keeps asking for poems that rhyme and Pearl's somehow, seldom do.
Author | : Patricia Margaret Kean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Christian poetry, English (Middle) |
ISBN | : |