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• Title:
  The Discourse of Fairyland in the Dream Vision of the Middle English Pearl
• Creator:
  Spyra, Piotr
• Contributor:
  Błaszkiewicz, Maria;
  Neubauer, Łukasz;
  University of Łódź;
  Piotr Spyra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Drama and Pre-1800 English Literature at the University of Łódź (Poland), where he teaches medieval and early modern English literature. He is the author of The Epistemological Perspective of the Pearl-Poet (2014). His research interests include Middle English poetry, medieval folklore, and Renaissance English drama.
• Description:
  The Middle English poem Pearl is a mixture of a number of genres. Opening like an elegy, with its initial stanzas heavily indebted to courtly love poetry, it proceeds towards a dream vision that launches into a theological debate concluded by an eschatological vision of the city of New Jerusalem. Pearl is obviously a religious poem, but, as Ad Putter has observed, the kind of religious and dreamscape imagery it contains, based on biblical sources, may also have influenced the writers of medieval romances such as Sir Orfeo or Thomas of Erceldoune in the construction of their secular otherworlds (2007: 237–41). The two romances in question are tales of fairy encounters, and the following article aims to identify major areas of convergence with the genre of fairy romance in Pearl.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl ;
  Piotr Spyra
• Date:
  2017.06.19;
  2017
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo LIBRON
• Subject:
  Middle English;
  Pearl;
  fairies;
  Sir Orfeo;
  purgatory;
  Edmund Leversedge
• Identifier:
  Spyra, Piotr. "The Discourse of Fairyland in the Dream Vision of the Middle English Pearl." The Light of Life: Essays in Honour of Professor Barbara Kowalik. Ed. Maria Błaszkiewicz and Łukasz Neubauer. Kraków: LIBRON, 2017. 93-108.;
  978-83-65705-30-3;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/21967
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  text