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100	1		_aDoob, Penelope Reed, _eauthor. _4aut _4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
245	1	4	_aThe Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages / _cPenelope Reed Doob.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2019]
264		4	_c©1992
300			_a1 online resource (378 p.) : _b26 halftones
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tList of Plates -- _tAcknowledgments: Four Labyrinths -- _tAbbreviations -- _tIntroduction: Charting the Maze -- _tPART ONE. The Labyrinth in the Classical and Early Christian Periods -- _tCHAPTER ONE. The Literary Witness: Labyrinths in Pliny, Virgil, and Ovid -- _tCHAPTER.TWO. The Labyrinth as Significant Form: Two Paradigms -- _tCHAPTER THREE. A Taxonomy of Metaphorical Labyrinths -- _tPART TWO. The Labyrinth in the Middle Ages -- _tCHAPTER FOUR. Etymologies and Verbal Implications -- _tCHAPTER FIVE. Mazes in Medieval Art and Architecture -- _tCHAPTER SIX. Moral Labyrinths in Medieval Literature -- _tCHAPTER SEVEN. Textual Labyrinths: Toward a Labyrinthine Aesthetic -- _tPART THREE. Labyrinths of Words: Central Texts and I ntertextualities -- _tCHAPTER EIGHT. Virgil's Aeneid -- _tCHAPTER NINE. Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy -- _tCHAPTER TEN. Dante's Divine Comedy -- _tCHAPTER ELEVEN. Chaucer's House of Fame -- _tAPPENDIX. Labyrinths in Manuscripts -- _tIndex
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520			_aAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective-the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages.Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it.Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
540			_aThis eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: _uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
650		4	_aAncient History & Classical Studies.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		4	_aMedieval & Renaissance Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. _2bisacsh
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738463?locatt=mode:legacy _zOpen Access _70
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501738463 _zOpen Access _70
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501738463/original
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