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The Literature of Unlikeness

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In the book I try to explore the theme of unlikeness as it appears in Saint Augustine and to examine its consequences for selected works of medieval literature. If the theme does not offer a unified field theory for medieval literature, it was nevertheless a persistent idea, and it offers some light on the work of such diverse figures as the authors of 'Beowulf', 'The Apocalypse of Golias', and the 'Roman de la Rose', as well as Chrétien de Troyes and Chaucer, perhaps even Malory.

Author(s): Charles Dahlberg
Publisher: University Press of New England
Year: 1988

Language: English
Pages: XVI+208
City: Hanover

Preface ix
Abbreviations xiii
1. The Land of Unlikeness: Augustine, Boethius, Chaucer i
2. The Kingdom of Unlikeness: 'Beowulf' 26
3. The Rhetoric of Unlikeness: Augustine, Dionysius the Areopagite, Alanus de Insulis 55
4. Love as Unlikeness: Andreas Capellanus, Chrétien de Troyes 73
5. The Garden of Unlikeness: The 'Roman de la Rose' 98
6. The Poet of Unlikeliness: Chaucer 125
7. The Retreat from Unlikeness: Malory and Others 149
Bibliography 173
Index 195