Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer
by Nolan, Edward Peter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Full maroon cloth. xii, 348 pp. Dust jacket has some sunning and offset panels, else a fine copy. In this series of interrelated essays, treating Ovid, Virgil, St. Augustine, Heinrich 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.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006686
- Title
- Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer
- Author
- Nolan, Edward Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Place of Publication
- Ann Arbor, MI
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Medieval Literature, Virgil, Chaucer, Edward Peter Nolan, Literary Criticism, Latin Literature, Knowledge, Epistemology, Ovid, St. Augustine, Heinrich von Morungen, Chretien de Troyes, Dante, Langland, Essays, mirrors in Literature, Medievalism, Post
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy; Literary Criticism; Ancient Rome;
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