This collection features modernist and post-modernist approaches to the rhetorically inflected poetry of the middle ages. Specialists in both Continental and Chaucerian literature analyze the ways in which medieval poets engage in various literary and rhetorical problems.
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Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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. Seller Inventory # 443823
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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. Seller Inventory # 443823
Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands
304 p. Cloth with dustjacket, in good condition. Seller Inventory # 33198
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Seller: Paul Brown, Ramsgate, United Kingdom
First edition. 304 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 12787
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Seller: Paul Brown, Ramsgate, United Kingdom
First edition. 304 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 12789
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Seller: Paul Brown, Ramsgate, United Kingdom
First edition. 304 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 12790
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Seller: thebookforest.com, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Like New. hardcover. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine. Dust wrapper is like new. As new. Supporting Bay Area Friends of the Library since 2010. Well packaged and promptly shipped. Seller Inventory # BAYX-00869