國立虎尾科技大學 |

A Mantic Disposition : = The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Mantic Disposition :/
Reminder of title:	The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.
Author:	Lopatin, Jennifer.
Description:	1 online resource (279 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-01A.
Subject:	Medieval literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379756574

A Mantic Disposition : = The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.
Lopatin, Jennifer.

A Mantic Disposition :The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives. - 1 online resource (279 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores the figure of the prophetic wild man in the woods in medieval narratives as well as his afterlives. As liminal figures straddling boundaries of mad and sane, wild and civilized, and secular and sacred, these prophetic madmen are ideally poised to access extra-human knowledge and use that knowledge to speak truth to power. In order for these secular-i.e. outside of religious institutions-figures to be able to prophesy, something must break. The texts render this break as madness-a break from some combination of fellow-feeling, reason, and society in favor of a lone and difficult existence in the wild. This project examines the narratives of Lailoken, Suibhne Geilt, Merlin in the Vita Merlini, each in their respective contexts. The same stark similarities that tie together these geographically distinct narratives also provide links across time: the Middle English Sir Gowther converts Merlin's excessive knowledge to excessive violence, and King Lear's Fool prophesies in the wild amidst burgeoning madness all around. Echoing with resonances of the desert fathers and holy fool, the prophetic madmen defy expectations in order to teach their audiences about the nature of knowledge-that it need not immediately be legible to be valuable, just like prophecy. Radically ambiguous and peculiarly vulnerable, the prophetic madman in the woods and his afterlives represent more ambivalent attitude toward ontologies and epistemologies than previously thought of the British Isles and Ireland in the medieval period and after.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379756574Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148457
Medieval literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Celtic literaturesIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

A Mantic Disposition : = The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.
LDR:02915ntm a22003857 4500 001 1144823
005 20240611104927.5
006 m o d
007 cr mn ---uuuuu
008 250605s2023 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9798379756574
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI30527997
035 $a AAI30527997
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Lopatin, Jennifer. $3 1469977
245 1 2 $a A Mantic Disposition : $b The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.
264 0 $c 2023
300 $a 1 online resource (279 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Ingham, Patricia C.;McMullen, A. Joseph.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a This dissertation explores the figure of the prophetic wild man in the woods in medieval narratives as well as his afterlives. As liminal figures straddling boundaries of mad and sane, wild and civilized, and secular and sacred, these prophetic madmen are ideally poised to access extra-human knowledge and use that knowledge to speak truth to power. In order for these secular-i.e. outside of religious institutions-figures to be able to prophesy, something must break. The texts render this break as madness-a break from some combination of fellow-feeling, reason, and society in favor of a lone and difficult existence in the wild. This project examines the narratives of Lailoken, Suibhne Geilt, Merlin in the Vita Merlini, each in their respective contexts. The same stark similarities that tie together these geographically distinct narratives also provide links across time: the Middle English Sir Gowther converts Merlin's excessive knowledge to excessive violence, and King Lear's Fool prophesies in the wild amidst burgeoning madness all around. Echoing with resonances of the desert fathers and holy fool, the prophetic madmen defy expectations in order to teach their audiences about the nature of knowledge-that it need not immediately be legible to be valuable, just like prophecy. Radically ambiguous and peculiarly vulnerable, the prophetic madman in the woods and his afterlives represent more ambivalent attitude toward ontologies and epistemologies than previously thought of the British Isles and Ireland in the medieval period and after.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2024
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Medieval literature. $3 1148457
650 4 $a British & Irish literature. $3 1148425
653 $a Celtic literatures
653 $a Madness
653 $a Vita Merlini
653 $a Prophecy
653 $a Sir Gowther
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0297
690 $a 0593
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a Indiana University. $b English. $3 1182614
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 85-01A.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30527997 $z click for full text (PQDT)