Apocalyptic Imagination and Historical Text: A Study of The Divine Comedy, The Book of the Duchess and Pearl
- Author / Editor
- Kang, Ji-Soo.
Apocalyptic Imagination and Historical Text: A Study of The Divine Comedy, The Book of the Duchess and Pearl
- Published
- Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 11 (2006): 243-58.
- Description
- Considers relationships among apocalypse, history, and literary closure in Dante's Paradiso, Chaucer's BD, and Pearl. Dante brings apocalypse into history, while the other two poets use it to contrast human temporality.
- In Korean, with English abstract.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.