Into the Woods: Wilderness Imagery as Representation of Spiritual and Emotional Transition in Medieval Literature
- Author / Editor
- Sholty, Janet Poindexter.
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.