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The Idea of the Labyrinth: From Classical Antiquity Through the Middle Ages

By Penelope Reed Doob

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1992
ISBN
0801480000, 9780801480003
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35564956 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
376\347
Time added
2015-12-16 09:52:42
Criticism Theory History Literature Fiction Ancien

Description

The author guides the steps of the reader-wanderer trough the inextricability of a western cultures central idea. The book is focused in textual labyrinths and philosophical mazes. Original and audacious application of the idea of the labyrinth to medieval literary theory enligthens the paths that leads from Virgil, Chaucer, Dante or Boethius through our very times -if the reader takes Reed Doob's Thread of Ariadne and continues her pioneer Daedalian adventure.

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