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Doob, Penelope Reed,

The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / Penelope Reed Doob. - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019] ©1992 - 1 online resource : 26 halftones

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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In English.

ISBN: 9781501738463

Standard No.: 10.7591/9781501738463 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.

LC Class. No.: PN56.L223

Dewey Class. No.: 700