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Review Essay: John Cummins, The Hound And The Hawk: The Art Of Medieval Hunting, Melanie V. Shirk

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John Cummins, The Hound and the Hawk: The Art of Medieval Hunting, St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Review Essay: A. F. Allison And D. M. Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature Of The English Counter-Reformation Between 1558 And 1640, Vol. 1 Of Works In Languages Other Than English, Eugene R. Cunnar

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A. F. Allison and D. M. Rogers, The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640, Vol. 1 of Works in Languages Other Than English, Gower Publishing/Scholar Press, 1989.

John O'Malley, ed., Catholicism in Early Modern History: A Guide to Research, Center for Reformation Research, 1988.

Narrative Description In Marco Polo's Travels: A Nonfictional Application Of Bakhtin's Chronotope, Ute Margarete Saine

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Throughout the text of Marco Polo's Devisement du monde, the reader is repeatedly enjoined to believe the narration. Such a captatio benevolantiae – the rhetorical convention inviting reader interest – typically takes the form of assertions, such as "I am telling nothing but the truth"; "Everybody ought too believe this"; "This is how it was"; "This is how Marco Polo saw it," and the like. The narrator even proposes to uphold the sophisticated distinction between eyewitness information, gathered firsthand, and accounts obtained from others:

We will set down things seen as seen, things heard as heard, so that our …

Review Essay: John N. Wall, Transformations Of The World: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan, Wilson G. Baroody

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John N. Wall, Transformations of the Word: Spenser, Herbert, Vaughan, University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Chaucer's Sense Of An Ending, Colleen Donnelly

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The problem of closure plagued Chaucer throughout his career, and critics have continued to point out his 'inability" to end or finish many of his poems. This lack of closure often frustrates the casual reader and perplexes the serious scholar, leaving both to wonder if Chaucer was incapable of bringing his poems to an end or if he simply intended to tease his audience with such inconclusiveness. Neither answer is quite satisfactory. To understand that this inconclusiveness was deliberately created by Chaucer the master poet, and not by Chaucer resignedly handing the pen over to the befuddled persona whoo records …

Review Essay: George M. Logan And Gordon Teskey, Eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays On Renaissance Romance, David Freeman

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George M. Logan and Gordono Teskey, eds., Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance, Cornell University Press, 1989.