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Langland's comic vision (William Lan...

Perrin, Curtis Maxwell.

Langland's comic vision (William Langland).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Langland's comic vision (William Langland).
Author:	Perrin, Curtis Maxwell.
Description:	350 p.
Notes:	Director: Traugott Lawler.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4017.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194695
ISBN:	9780542394591

Langland's comic vision (William Langland).
Perrin, Curtis Maxwell.

Langland's comic vision (William Langland). - 350 p.

Director: Traugott Lawler.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

Successive chapters provide a comic reading of the entire poem. I start by examining the surface cues in the Prologue to show how it sets dimensions of response that shape a comic reading of it (ch. 1). In my analysis of the Visio, I look at comic dualities in its wordplay, personifications, and treatment of the pardon scene (ch. 2). In the pardon scene, these dualities push the limits of playfulness and cause the narrator to have a "crisis" about salvation that the Vita must resolve. The Vita's resolution of this crisis takes the form of the narrator's comic "education," enabling him to surmount the personal limitations that hinder his quest for Dowel. At the same time, the poem also redefines its own modes of representation, especially in terms of how it uses personifications (ch. 3). The movement away from static personification allegory toward a more dynamic, and comic, typological mode of allegory "mirrors" a change in the narrator that allows him to understand larger, affirmative comic patterns (ch. 4). In a great reversal, however, the end of the poem resists this affirmative message, although in a way that is its final, most comic statement. In fact, its resistance to being programmatic about its optimism is Piers's best form of cheer (ch. 5).

ISBN: 9780542394591Subjects--Topical Terms:

226951
Literature, Medieval.

Langland's comic vision (William Langland).
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