In search of "Kynde Knowynge" : Piers Plowman and the origin of allegory / Madeleine Kasten.
Readers today no longer relish sustained allegorical narratives the way they did in the Middle Ages, when the art of 'other-speaking' was as dominant in poetic discourse as it was elsewhere. Yet we live in an age which, following the postmodernist dictum that any sign can only refer to oth...
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