The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Lewis, C. S.
The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.
- Physical Description
- viii, 232 pp.
- Description
- Intellectual backgrounds to the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, with particular attention to literature, classical, and late-classical influences; the concept of the universe and the earth; human physiology and psychology; and cultural influences on modern notions and idioms. Recurrent attention to Chaucer's works and their reflections and representations of the medieval/Renaissance world view.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Critricism