Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England.
- Author / Editor
- Hackbarth, Steven A.
Apocalyptic Mentalities in Late-Medieval England.
- Published
- Ph.D. Dissertation. Marquette University, 2014. ii, 245 pp. Dissertation Abstracts International 76.04(E). Fully accessible via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global and at https://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/411/.
- Physical Description
- ii, 245 pp.
- Description
- Argues that the "study of the apocalyptic in the English literature of the late fourteenth cannot boil down simply to the tracing of sources or to historicist (New and otherwise) readings of contemporary texts and artifacts," and pursues, instead, "the ways in which apocalyptic comes to be known" by assessing several related "fields of meaning": death, ecclesiastical authority, and confessional practice. Uses these as chapter-subjects, and surveys how their contingencies--and the unattainable "pretensions" of writing itself--help us to understand "the apocalyptic" in works such as CT (especially PardPT, ParsPT, and Ret), Gower's "Confessio Amantis," "Pearl," "Cleannesse," and a number of others.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Canterbury Tales--General
Pardoner and His Tale
Parson and His Tale
Chaucer's Retraction