Design in the Wax The by Marc Cogan PAPERBACK 9780268008871

Design in the Wax The\nby Marc Cogan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Marc Cogan\nTitle: Design in the Wax The\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: poetry and poets\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press\nPublication year: 1999\nISBN-13: 9780268008871\nISBN-10: 0268008876\nRRP: \u00A335.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe Design in the Wax recovers the specifically medieval interpretation of the structure which underlies each part of the poem and the poem as a whole, and shows readers how to discover the single consistent principle which organizes each part and the overall narrative. The incidents of the poem would remain hopelessly ambiguous were it not for the philosophical and theological distinctions embodied in the structure of the narrative, in .