Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Edward Peter.
Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer
- Published
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1990.
- Physical Description
- xii, 1990.
- Description
- Studies the figure of the Pauline paradigm "videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate" (1 Cor. 13.12) in Western ontology and epistemology, examining "the functions of intra- as well as intertextual literary mirroring" (Virgil's use of Homer, Chaucer's of Dante).
- Also explores mirror imagery in Ovid, Augustine, and certain medieval writers and considers the God-human "imago dei" figure, "the mirroring capability of the world...in texts, people, and history." Examines figures of Daedalus, Orpheus, Narcissus, Dante's Francesca, and "the speculum of the Logos: Latin in Dante and Langland."
- See also Nolan's "Knocking the Mary out of the Bones: Chaucer's Ethical Mirrors of Dante."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.