Now through a glass darkly : specular images of being and knowing from Virgil to Chaucer
In this series of interrelated essays, treating Ovil, Virgil, St Augustine, Henrich von Morungen, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Langland, and Chaucer, the author explores the ways in which medieval authors and their Roman predecessors used the image of the mirror both as instrument and metaphor.
Print Book, English, ©1990
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©1990
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 348 pages ; 24 cm
9780472101702, 0472101706
22305117
The Ivory Gate: Virgil, Daedalus, and the Limits of Art
The Severed Head: Ovid, Orpheus, and the Powers of Art
The Book in the Garden: St. Augustine and the Authentication of the Self in the Other
Self as Other: Medieval Commentary and the Domain of the Letter
The Damaged Mouth: Heinrich von Morungen, Narcissus, and the Catastrophe of Recognition
Toads in the Garden: Chretien de Troyes, Anagnorisis, and Epithalamion
The Descending Dove: Dante's Francesca as the Anti-Beatrice
Knocking the Mary Out of the Bones: Chaucer's Ethical Mirrors of Dante
Speculum of the Logos: Latin in Dante and Langland