Claustrophobia, Race, and The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man

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作者：
Adler, Shoshana [1 ]
机构：
[1] Vanderbilt Univ, Nashville, TN 37235 USA
来源：
EXEMPLARIA-MEDIEVAL EARLY MODERN THEORY | 2023年 / 35卷 / 03期
关键词：
allegory; race; perception; John Lydgate;
D O I：
10.1080/10412573.2023.2242740
中图分类号：
I [文学]; K [历史、地理];
学科分类号：
05 ; 06 ;
摘要：
The universal Christian subject at the center of The Pilgrimage of the Lyf of Manhode is a figure dependent on racist difference for a coherent experience of self. This essay focuses on the allegorical scene of perception, in which the deformed body of a personified figure becomes an exercise in pedagogical explanation. Taking claustrophobia as symptomatic of the poem's investment in sensory information, the essay explores a neglected figure, a bishop with horns referred to as "Moses" or "like Moses," whose depiction is the moment where Jewishness enters the poem's field of vision: subordinate to the demands of Christian allegory and yet condensing a historical significance that exceeds it.
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