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Article: Langland's Fictions.
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 1994
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A paradox: the simplest of sentences, 'I believe' (or a variation on it), qualifies much of the argument of this book (particularly the last chapter), written by one who professes himself an unbeliever. A resolution: by its power to 'haunt the mind' fiction itself becomes the ground of belief, and so 'theological' choices are posed to us as readers; with regard to Langland's autobiography, for example, we are either believers, agnostics or atheists. The implications of this discursive transference are worth exploring. But however much Professor Burrow frankly recognizes his position, the argument of the first three chapters is rather an account of Langland's own interest ...
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