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Review Essay: Hans Baron, Petrarch's "Secretum": Its Making And Its Meaning, Ronnie H. Terpening

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Hans Baron, Petrarch's "Secretum": Its Making and Its Meaning, Medieval Academy of America, 1985. $22.00

Review Essay: V. A. Kolve, Chaucer And The Imagery Of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales, Charles R. Smith

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V. A. Kolve, Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative: The First Five Canterbury Tales, Stanford University Press, 1984. $39.50

The Wife Of Bath And The Scholastic Concept Of Operatio, Joseph E. Grennen

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The loathly lady of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale delivers a lecture to her reluctant swain which is remarkably gracious and persuasive, although hardly unconventional. Her sentiments, which find a parallel in Dante's Convivio, may be summed up in a phrase: Virtue is the true nobility. True virtue, furthermore, is a legacy from Christ, not an inheritance passed on with titles and wealth. The chief difficulty facing a reader is to find a way of reconciling this view with the cynical, maverick personality established for Alice of Bath in her own prologue. We might suppose that Chaucer is here …

The Sense Of An Ending In Shakespeare's Early Comedies, Deborah T. Curren Aquino

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About Shakespeare's endings, Samuel Johnson wrote:

in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labor to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented. (71-72)

In the twentieth century, Ernest Schanzer has echoed Dr. Johnson's opinion in his commentary on A Midsummer Night's Dream: "For sheer economy and multiplicity of effect it [the first scene] has no equal in any of …

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The Bridge

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Integration Of Nature In Japanese Sacred Space, Gail Maxwell

Selected Papers in Asian Studies: Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies

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The Bridge

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Estates Adjoining Naboth's Vineyard Artwork, Sue Palmer

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Littoral, Carrie Sandholtz

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Like Him, Eugene Woodbury

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Rubber Sharks, Brent Cottle

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In grade six I hunted deadly rubber sharks that lived beneath the ice over the playground puddles. Rubber sharks were just something to pass the time of recess. Or were they? Could there actually be a herd of man-eating rubber sharks lurking beneath the icy puddles of Cardston Elementary School? I sure thought so.

You Want To Know About This One Here? Where The Mormons Go, Curtis Wade Bentley

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The mortuary seemed to keep the town alive. Always stately and freshly painted. It looked like one of those plantation houses from Gone with the Wind. Like a place where lots of well-off men come on a Saturday afternoon to hold tall, cold glasses and toast tall, cold women in white. It even had a gazebo-type thing out in the middle of a lot of grass where a band ought to play something lively. Of course it wasn't that kind of place. The mortuary was a kind of mirage that way. But then, I didn't know anyone who would have …

Guavas, Tessa Meyer

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Right Place, Right Time: The William S. Knudsen Story, Robert Vanderkloot

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"You talk funny." The little boy stood awkwardly, the peak of his cap pointed sideways, looking up at the tall, thin young man seated on the top step of the main entrance to the eight-story apartment building which covered the entire block at 152nd Street and Eighth Avenue.

Tasso's First Discourse On The Art Of Poetry As A Guide To The Gerusalemme Liberata, Lawrence F. Rhu

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The relationship between Tasso's early Discorsi dell'arte poetica and his Gerusalemme liberata needs clarification for a variety of reasons. The existence of a later poetics – the Discorsi del poema eroico, which modifies and expands the earlier version – has frequently side-tracked readers into a text that more properly pertains to Tasso's later version of his epic, the Gerusalemme conquistata. The availability of the second poetics in English, while the first remains inaccessible to readers without Italian, has also encouraged this inappropriate pairing. Further, the current vogue of literary theory tends to promote a view of Tasso's poetics …

Guest Editor's Introduction, Allen E. Bergin

BYU Studies

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Toward A Social Science Of Contemporary Mormondom, Howard M. Bahr, Renata Tonks Forste

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Walking Provo Canyon, Loretta M. Sharp

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Counseling: A Guide To Helping Others R. Lanier Britsch And Terrance D. Olson, Jodine J. Wood

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Constantinian Coin Motifs In Ancient Literary Sources, Charles Odahl

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Classical numismatists have long assumed that Roman emperors used the imperial coinage as a medium of propaganda. The obverses advertised the emperor's visages and titles, while the frequently changed reverses announced military victories, peace and prosperity, imperial beneficence and building programs, or religious beliefs, etc. Often beautifully designed, stamped with a much higher and more vivid relief than modern coins, and spread throughout the empire, Roman coins and medallions certainly seem to have been minted and disseminated with the intention that the imperial populace would note the figures and read the inscriptions thereon – not merely exchange them in economic …

Gastronomy And Sexuality: "Table Language" In The Heptaméron, Colette H. Winn

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In his penetrating study on Marguerite de Navarre, Themes, Language and Structure, Marcel Tetel calls attention to the metaphoric usage of food in the Heptaméron. Critics, to date, have failed to pursue this line of inquiry. Readers accustomed to Rabelais's elaborate gastronomic depictions may be disappointed by the extreme sobriety of corresponding scenes in the Hemptaméron. Marguerite eschews the picturesque description of a generously laden table, the exuberance associated with this traditionally jovial event and the gigantism required by the Gargantuan legend in favor of briefer and often less colorful table encounters. Yet relegating these scenes to …

The Anglo-Norman Courtly Lyric, Carol J. Harvey

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Whereas many works of a religious or moral nature survive from the Anglo-Norman era, secular lyric poetry was until quite recently virtually unknown. Isabel S. T. Aspin's Anglo-Norman Political Songs provided the first, and to date the only, readily-accessible modern edition of secular lyrics. This collection of political poems and satires shows that the author of occasional verse is not only interested in singing the praises of the Blessed Virgin Mary or adapting parts of the liturgy into the vernacular; he is moved also to sing of the corruption of state or church, to lament the death of the noble …

Review Essay: David Nicholas, The Domestic Life Of A Medieval City, Francis X. Hartigan

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David Nicholas, The Domestic Life of a Medieval City, University of Nebraska Press, 1985. $26.50

On Ferrera And Chivalric/Epic Poetry In Italian Criticism Today, Maristella De P. Lorch

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Gennaro Savarse, Il "Furioso" e la cultura del Rinascimento. Letteratura italiana: Studi e testi 10. Roma: Bulzoni, 1984. 94 p. Lire 7,000.

Riccardo Bruscagli, Stagioni della civiltà estense. Saggi di varia umanità, 25. Pisa: Nistri-Lischi, 1982. 236 p. Lire 15,000.

Rosanna Alhaique Pettinelli, L'immaginario cavalleresco nel Rinascimento ferrarese. L'Ippogrifo, 29. Roma: Bonacci, 1983. 301 p. Lire 16,000.

Review Essay: David C. Fowler, The Bible In Middle English Literature, Donald Sullivan

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David C. Fowler, The Bible in Middle English Literature, University of Washington Press, 1984. $25.00

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Review Essay: James Weisheipl, Nature And Motion In The Middle Ages, Richard Harper

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James Weisheipl, Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages, Catholic University of America Press, 1985. $31.95

Review Essay: Warren Threadgold, Renaissances Before The Renaissance, Gunar Freibergs

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Warren Threadgold, Renaissances Before the Renaissance, Stanford University Press, 1984. $28.50

Review Essay: David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances And The Royal Family, Dorothy C. Jones

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David Bergeron, Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family, University of Kansas Press, 1985. $25.00