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Three Temptations
Donald Roy Howard
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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
A study of the medieval idea that defined the "world" as recorded in I John 2:16-the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. Conflict in Troilus and Criseyde, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is explored.
Originally published in 1966.
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Kundenbewertungen
Gottfried von Strassburg, Chivalry, Overreaction, Antithesis, Lactantius, Trickster, La Dolce Vita, Disenchantment, Apostolic poverty, Spirituality, Gluttony, Double truth, Quibble (plot device), Roman à clef, Tragedy, Etymology, Pandarus, Trojan War, Cardinal virtues, Hyperbole, Medieval literature, The Merchant's Tale, Piers Plowman, Trivium, Irony, Sententiae, Dramatic monologue, Ridicule, The Knight's Tale, Chivalric romance, Gawain, Poetry, The Realist, Troilus, Superiority (short story), Flattery, Literature, The Prioress's Tale, Paganism, Revenge tragedy, Thomas Aquinas, Gesta Romanorum, Secretum, De amore (Andreas Capellanus), Self-love, Consummation, Petrarch, Matter of Rome, Romanticism, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Religion, J. R. R. Tolkien, Fortinbras, Asceticism, Good and evil, Courtly love, Sloth (deadly sin), Self-denial, Allegory, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Concupiscence, Life Against Death, Andreas Capellanus, The Parson's Tale, Sympathetic character, Summa Theologica, Mr., Troilus and Criseyde, Greed, Suggestion