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This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an

Title : The Signifying Power of Pearl: Medieval Literary and Cultural Contexts for the Transformation of Genre
Author : Jane Beal
Language : en
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