Transfiguring Medievalism: Poetry, Attention, and the Mysteries of the Body

by Cary Howie

Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Transfiguration, traditionally understood as the revelation of divinity in community, becomes a figure for those splendors, mundane and divine, that await within the read, lived and loved world. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152614865X
• ISBN13: 9781526148650
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"