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Thise stories beren witnesse : the landscape of the afterlife in medieval and post-medieval imagination
- Title
- Thise stories beren witnesse : the landscape of the afterlife in medieval and post-medieval imagination / Liliana Sikorska (ed.) ; assistant to the editor, Katarzyna Bronk.
- Publication
- Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, [2010], ©2010.
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- Description
- 137 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Medieval English Studies Symposium held in Poznań, Poland, in November 2009. The papers cover a wide range of approaches to the issue of the afterlife, heaven and hell in Old and Middle English as well as post-medieval literature."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Medieval English mirror ; vol. 7
- Uniform Title
- Medieval English mirror ; v. 7.
- Subject
- Litfass, Ernst
- 450 - 1500
- English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism > Congresses
- English literature > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism > Congresses
- Future life in literature > Congresses
- English literature > Middle English
- English literature > Old English
- Future life in literature
- Literatur
- Paradies Motiv
- Hölle Motiv
- Jenseits Motiv
- Altenglisch
- Mittelenglisch
- Motiv
- Jenseits
- Mittelenglisch
- Posen <2009>
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The landscape of the afterlife in medieval and post-medieval imagination / Michael Alexander -- Between 'ofergyhg' and 'wræclastas' : pride and exile in the speculative afterlife of 'Christ and Satan' / Rafał Boryslawski -- Muhammad in Hell, or Dante and William Langland on the prophet's afterlife / Anna Czarnowus -- Afterlife and Celtic concepts of the Otherworld / Sabine Heinz -- The 'after' in medieval afterlife : a vertical or horizontal arrow of time? / Dwight Holbrook -- Unreal wonderlands -- the quest for Paradise in late medieval and Victorian immagination / Lukasz Hudomięt -- Inklings of afterlife : images of Hell in C.S. Lewis' 'The great divorce' and Charles Williams' 'Et in sempiternum pereant' / Barbara Kowlalik -- Access denied : the female "wild zone" in visions of Purgatory by Christina Mirabilis / Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec -- The Anglo-Saxon idea of 'locus amoenus' : the Paradise in the Old English 'Judgement Day II' and 'The Phoenix' / Jacek Olesiejko -- Reading and writing a medievalist text : Adam Thorpe's 'Hodd'. An advertisement in five acts / Liliana Sikorska -- Some gender aspects of the motif of penance in selected Middle English romances / Andrzej Wicher.
- ISBN
- 363160551X
- 9783631605516
- LCCN
- 2011378277
- OCLC
- ocn678476403
- 678476403
- SCSB-14503436
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library