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.

Other author Hill, John M.
Other author Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M.
Other author Payne, Robert O.
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2000.
Description304 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99027895
ISBN0838638104

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Joyner General Stacks PN688 .R49 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold