Piers Plowman" and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology.
- Author / Editor
- Gruenler, Curtis A.
Piers Plowman" and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology.
- Published
- Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
- Physical Description
- xii, 586 pp.
- Description
- Approaches Chaucer's works briefly through contrast with :"Piers Plowman," which is treated here as the key text in a tradition of literature defined by "a distinctive poetics of enigma." Observes that Chaucer explores horizontally across the earthly world of humanity and society, as opposed to the "vertical," spiritual trajectory of :Piers Plowman." Considers Chaucer's emophasis to be exemplary of what would happen to enigma if the sacred and the secular were increasingly separated.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations