Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse: Studies in Carnivalesque Subversion

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Author
Arthur Lindley

Hardback
December 1996 • ISBN 978-0874135886 • $82.00


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This book studies the interaction in late medieval and Renaissance English literature of Augustinian theology and the modes of subversive humor Bakhtin calls carnival. This interaction produces a sustained interrogation of public identity which limits medieval culture and its major texts to those of the Renaissance.