Mirroring Language: Narcissus in Late Middle English Poetry
- Author / Editor
- Cox, Catherine Stallworth.
Mirroring Language: Narcissus in Late Middle English Poetry
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1992): 2930A.
- Description
- Ovid's Narcissus becomes polysemous, generating figures of language among "Pearl" (Dreamer as Narcissus); TC (narrator's drawing on the myth for rhetoric to link pagan and Christian); "Piers Plowman B" (Christian Narcissus and "dreamer-Will"); and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" (metaphors of mirroring and seeing).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.