In Search of the Historical Heffner (Pearl Poet Unmasked)

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This paper looks at how Chaucer and the Pearl Poet before him, create and make ample use of, a type of literary paean that facilitates a figurative movement from the temporal to the celestial. Emphasis is given to Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowles", the "Duchess", et al., and to the "Pearl" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl Poet." It also looks at how this thematic construction proposes a bifurcated paradigm of the universe to mimic the heaven/earth continuum.

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"Chaucer and the Pearl Poet before him, create, and make ample use of, a type of literary paean that facilitates a figurative movement from the temporal to the celestial. This construct, typified in the prologue format, consisting of both textual introduction and, in some cases, definitive invocations, is a preamble illustrative of the dichotomy of heaven and earth, and in others, indicative of one or the other. The end result being, that Chaucer and the Pearl Poet have created, textually, metaphorically, and figuratively, a celestial model that is meant to be both didactic and entertaining. "

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