Pearl (Middle English Texts) - Softcover

Consortium For The Teaching Of The Middle Ages

 
9781580440332: Pearl (Middle English Texts)

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Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's haunting novel, Mama Day, where the crossing-over moves into a place of memory and hope, the nostalgic space of home as well as Beulah or Eden, the earthly paradise."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sarah Stanbury is Monsignor Murray Professor in the Arts and Humanities at the College of the Holy Cross. Her research interests include Chaucer, medieval dream visions, and medieval romance.

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