Screen LibraryDreaming of Cockaigne：medieval fantasies of the perfect life
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Columbia University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2001. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Dromen van Cocagne. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 533 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0231117027 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K13 |
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K13 I109.3 |
| Call Number: | K13/P724 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-514) and index. pt. 1. The forfeiture of happiness, the beginning: Paradise lost -- Contours of a book -- The power of literature -- pt. 2. Texts as maps: Rhyming Texts L and B, Prose Text G -- The two rhyming texts on the land of Cockaigne -- Recitation and writing -- Oral structures in writing -- The existing potential -- The prose text of Luilekkerland -- pt. 3. Eating to forget: Eating habits -- Hunger and scarcity -- The topos of hunger -- The intoxicating effect of fasting -- Gorging in self-defense -- Food in motion -- Literary refreshment -- pt. 4. Paradise refurbished: The land of Cockaigne as paradise -- Never say die -- Heavenly rewards -- Other paradises -- Lovely places, golden ages -- Wonder gardens and pleasure parks -- Dreams of immortality -- pt. 5. The imagination journeys forth: Geographical musings -- Real dreamworlds -- Wonders of east and west -- Fanciful destinations -- Virtual dreamlands -- pt. 6. Heretical excesses: The thousand-year reign of peace and prosperity -- Heresies of the free spirit -- Sex Adam-and-Eve style -- Low-country heterodoxy -- pt. 7. Learning as a matter of survival: Didactic differences -- Topsy-turvy worlds -- Hard times -- Moderation, ambition, and decorum -- Lessons in pragmatism -- pt. 8. Dreaming of Cockaigne, the end: The name Cockaigne -- A depreciated cultural asset -- From countryside to town -- The necessity of fiction. |