| Autore |
Doob Penelope Reed
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1990
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (xviii, 355 pages) : illustrations
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| Disciplina |
700
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| Soggetto topico |
Labyrinths in art
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
Classical literature - History and criticism
Labyrinths in literature
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
0-8014-2393-7
1-5017-3846-1
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- Acknowledgments: Four Labyrinths -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Charting the Maze -- PART ONE. The Labyrinth in the Classical and Early Christian Periods -- CHAPTER ONE. The Literary Witness: Labyrinths in Pliny, Virgil, and Ovid -- CHAPTER.TWO. The Labyrinth as Significant Form: Two Paradigms -- CHAPTER THREE. A Taxonomy of Metaphorical Labyrinths -- PART TWO. The Labyrinth in the Middle Ages -- CHAPTER FOUR. Etymologies and Verbal Implications -- CHAPTER FIVE. Mazes in Medieval Art and Architecture -- CHAPTER SIX. Moral Labyrinths in Medieval Literature -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Textual Labyrinths: Toward a Labyrinthine Aesthetic -- PART THREE. Labyrinths of Words: Central Texts and I ntertextualities -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Virgil's Aeneid -- CHAPTER NINE. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy -- CHAPTER TEN. Dante's Divine Comedy -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Chaucer's House of Fame -- APPENDIX. Labyrinths in Manuscripts -- Index
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910367642403321 |
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The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / Penelope Reed Doob
