Now Through a Glass Darkly: Specular Images of Being and Knowing from Virgil to Chaucer
- ISBN-10
- 0472101706
- ISBN-13
- 9780472101702
- Category
- Latin literature
- Pages
- 348
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Edward Peter Nolan
Description
Nolan explores the way Roman and medieval authors used the mirror as both instrument and metaphor
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