Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology

by Curtis A Gruenler

In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era's most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland's Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology--the three fields of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268101620
• ISBN13: 9780268101626
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 598 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"