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Confusion and disappointment in the dream world: the allegorical senses, courtly language, and poetic landscape in Pearl

Creator:

Lewis, Michael Stewart

Abstract:

My current Project on the late fourteenth-century Pearl observes the workings of allegory, courtly language, and poetic landscape. During this study, I pursue the elements of the poem that suggest a lack of spiritual growth and change, and an abundance of pain, torment, and confusion for the poem's narrator. I...

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Masters Thesis

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regularized the alphabet using the Dunn and l3yrnes edition in Middle English Literature. 5 his waking
"Justify[ing] the ways of God to man" : John Milton's Use of Satan to Promote a Christian Message in Paradise Lost

Creator:

Burkett, Kristen A.

Abstract:

This paper focuses on Satan as a sympathetic figure in Paradise Lost, and it argues that readers' sympathy for Satan drives them to pursue God's grace in order to avoid falling into the same fate as Satan. It uses Reader Response theory to show how readers connect with Satan, and...

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Masters Thesis

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2003 book The Satanic Epic, focuses particularly on the history of Satan, and argues that the Satan