Into the Woods: Wilderness Imagery as Representation of Spiritual and Emotional Transition in Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Sholty, Janet Poindexter.

Title
Into the Woods: Wilderness Imagery as Representation of Spiritual and Emotional Transition in Medieval Literature

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 2645A.

Description
Neo-Platonism is the root of medieval depictions of wilderness as a metaphoric landscape of psychological transition and spiritual conversion.
Examines select medieval works, including Dante's "Divine Comedy", "Beowulf", "Pearl", "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", BD, PF, and TC, comparing them with depictions in the visual arts.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Book of the Duchess.
Parliament of Fowls.
Troilus and Criseyde.