The rhetorical poetics of the Middle Ages : reconstructive polyphony : essays in honor of Robert O. Payne / edited by John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi

Language: English

Published by Madison [N.J.] London ; Cranbury, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses, 2000

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Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 304 p. : ill., port. ; 25 cm. Contents: Eustache Deschamps' L'Art de dictier: just what kind of poetics is it?-or how Robert O. Payne launched my career in Deschamps studies / Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi -- Chaucer: beginnings / Charles W. Owen -- "The mystery of the bed chamber": mnemotechnique and vision in Chaucer's The book of the duchess / Mary Carruthers -- Chaucer's selective "remembrance": ironies of "fyn loving" and the ideal feminine / Joel Feimer -- The interior decoration of his mind: exegesis in the house of Fame / Ellen E. Martin -- Chaucer's "bad art": the interrupted tales / Martin Stevens -- "Me thynketh it a thyng impertinent": inaugurating dialogic discourse in the Prologue to the Clerk's tale / William McClellan -- Sandrine's fable: courtly discourse and courtly behavior / Johanna C. Prins -- Ockham, Chaucer, and the emergence of modern poetics / Burt Kimmelman -- Text as arena: lament and gnome in The wanderer / Sealy Gilles -- The Alba lady, sex-roles, and social roles: "who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" / Gale Sigal -- The veil and the knot: Petrarch's humanistic poetic / Diane R. Marks -- The role of the feminine in Dante's model of literary influence / Anne Howland Schotter -- The Body of/as evidence: desire, eloquence, and the construction of society in Decameron 7.8 / Robert W. Hanning. Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 Criticism and interpretation. Payne, Robert O. Poetry, Medieval History and criticism. 1 Kg. …

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Title
The rhetorical poetics of the Middle Ages : reconstructive polyphony : essays in honor of Robert O. Payne / edited by John M. Hill and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi
Author
Hill, John M
Publisher
Madison [N.J.] London ; Cranbury, NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Presses
Publication year
2000
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0838638104
ISBN 13
9780838638101
Item weight
1 kilogram

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