ISBN:
9780231117036
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (553 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Dreaming of Cockaigne : Medieval Fantasies of the Perfect Life
DDC:
398/.42/0940902
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Imagine a dreamland where roasted pigs wander about with knives in their backs to make carving easy, where grilled geese fly directly into one's mouth, where cooked fish jump out of the water and land at one's feet. The weather is always mild, the wine flows freely, sex is readily available, and all people enjoy eternal youth.Such is Cockaigne. Portrayed in legend, oral history, and art, this imaginary land became the most pervasive collective dream of medieval times-an earthly paradise that served to counter the suffering and frustration of daily existence and to allay anxieties about an incr
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Part 1 The Forfeiture of Happiness; The Beginning; 1. Paradise Lost; 2. Contours of a Book; 3. The Power of Literature; Part 2 Texts as Maps; 4. Rhyming Texts L and B, Prose Text G; 5. The Two Rhyming Texts on the Land of Cockaigne; 6. Recitation and Writing; 7. Oral Structures in Writing; 8. The Existing Potential; 9. The Prose Text on Luilekkerland; Part 3 Eating to Forget; 10. Eating Habits; 11. Hunger and Scarcity; 12. The Topos of Hunger; 13. The Intoxicating Effect of Fasting; 14. Gorging in Self-Defense; 15. Food in Motion; 16. Literary Refreshment
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 4 Paradise Refurbished17. The Land of Cockaigne as Paradise; 18. Never Say Die; 19. Heavenly Rewards; 20. Other Paradises; 21. Lovely Places, Golden Ages; 22. Wonder Gardens and Pleasure Parks; 23. Dreams of Immortality; Part 5 The Imagination Journeys Forth; 24. Geographical Musings; 25. Real Dreamworlds; 26. Wonders of East and West; 27. Fanciful Destinations; 28. Virtual Dreamlands; Part 6 Heretical Excesses; 29. The Thousand-Year Reign of Peace and Prosperity; 30. Heresies of the Free Spirit; 31. Sex Adam-and-Eve Style; 32. Low-Country Heterodoxy
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 7 Learning as a Matter of Survival33. Didactic Differences; 34. Topsy-Turvy Worlds; 35. Hard Times; 36. Moderation, Ambition, and Decorum; 37. Lessons in Pragmatism; Part 8 Dreaming of Cockaigne: The End; 38. The Name Cockaigne; 39. A Depreciated Cultural Asset; 40. From Countryside to Town; 41. The Necessity of Fiction; Appendixes; 1. Middle Dutch Rhyming Texts on Cockaigne; 2. Dutch Prose Text of 1546 on Luilekkerland; 3. Dutch Poems Appearing in English Translation; Sources; Bibliography; Index;
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Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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