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Inside Or Outside The Whale: George Orwell's Art And Polemic, Richard H. Walker
Inside Or Outside The Whale: George Orwell's Art And Polemic, Richard H. Walker
Masters Theses
This chronological study of the evolution of the works of George Orwell is helpful for the futurist, the citizen awash in groupthink, scholars of standpoint epistemology, of mind and nature, of radical humanism, and others. A former British officer and Spanish revolutionary, he became a Democratic Socialist who believed in intellectual freedom above all and was a champion of the common man. Described as the leading exemplar of the public intellectual, he focused on activism vs passivism (and pacifism), and transforming art and politics into cultural power with mind and nature as the foundation. Like few others, he understood cultural …
Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn
Sir Clyomon And Sir Clamydes: A Revaluation, Peter T. Hadorn
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Long dismissed as an immature play with no intrinsic merit, Sir Clyomon and Sir Clamydes (ca. 1570-1583) quite thoroughly debates issues of contemporary political interest. This essay seeks to restore Clyomon from its undistinguished position in Renaissance studies by showing how it dramatically supports Queen Elizabeth's use of chivalry as an ideology of power and order and criticizes military adventurism. By reading this play as a political text, in this essay I employ the methodologies of New Historicism, which identifies literature as only one of many cultural discourses taking part in the negotiation of power. "Representations of the world in …
Review Essay: Robert Mcmahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay On The Literary Form Of The Confessions, Wilson G. Baroody
Review Essay: Robert Mcmahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay On The Literary Form Of The Confessions, Wilson G. Baroody
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Robert McMahon, Augustine's Prayerful Ascent: An Essay on the Literary Form of the Confessions, University oof Georgia Preess, 1989, 200 pp., biblio., index, $27.50.
Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
Review Essay: Dante Today, Theodore J. Cachey Jr.
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Dante Today, ed. Amilcare A. Iannucci, special spring and fall volume of Quaaderni d'italianistica, 10.1-2 (1989).
Review Essay: Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. Mcvaugh, And Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing And Learning In Fourteenth-Century Valencia, Kristine T. Utterback
Review Essay: Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. Mcvaugh, And Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing And Learning In Fourteenth-Century Valencia, Kristine T. Utterback
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Luis Garcia-Ballester, Michael R. McVaugh, and Agustin Rubio-Vela, Medical Licensing and Learning in Fourteenth-Century Valencia, American Philosophical Society, 1989, 128 pp., facsim., maps, $15.00.
Review Essay: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith
Review Essay: Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Charles R. Smith
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Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, Harvard University Press, 1989, xiii, 236 pp., biblio., $29.95.
Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein
Review Essay: Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy", Sandy Feinstein
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Karla Taylor, Chaucer Reads "The Divine Comedy," Stanford University Press, 1989, vi, 289 pp., biblio., index, $29.50.
Review Essay: Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index To The Commentary On Gower's Confessio Amantis, Katherine S. Gittes
Review Essay: Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index To The Commentary On Gower's Confessio Amantis, Katherine S. Gittes
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Peter Nicholson, An Annotated Index to the Commentary on Gower's Confessio amantis, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 62, State University of New York, 1989, 593 pp., $35.00.
Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard
Review Essay: Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation Of The Intercenales, W. Scott Blanchard
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Leon Battista Alberti, Dinner Pieces: A Translation of the Intercenales, trans. and ed. David Marsh, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies and The Renaissance Society of America, 1987, ix, 268 pp., ill., biblio., index, $20.00.
Review Essay: Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse And Rider: Painting, Sculpture, And Horsemanship, 1500-1800, John F. Moffitt
Review Essay: Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse And Rider: Painting, Sculpture, And Horsemanship, 1500-1800, John F. Moffitt
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Walter Liedtke, The Royal Horse and Rider: Painting, Sculpture, and Horsemanship, 1500-1800, Abaris, 1989, 336 pp., over 300 b & w and 34 color illus., biblioo., $65.00.
Review Essay: Philippa Berry, Of Chastity And Power: Elizabethan Literature And The Unmarried Queen, Jean R. Brink
Review Essay: Philippa Berry, Of Chastity And Power: Elizabethan Literature And The Unmarried Queen, Jean R. Brink
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Philippa Berry, Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen, Routledge, 1989, 193 pp., xii, ill., biblio., index, $35.00.
Review Essay: Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Wyman H. Herendeen
Review Essay: Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Wyman H. Herendeen
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Jean R. Brink, Michael Drayton Revisited, Twayne Publishers, 1990, xiv, 167 pp., ill., biblio., index, $29.95.
Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller
Review Essay: John D. Bernard, Ceremonies Of Innocence: Pastoralism In The Poetry Of Edmund Spenser, Steven Max Miller
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John D. Bernard, Ceremonies of Innocence: Pastoralism in the Poetry of Edmund Spenser, Cambridge University Press, 1989, ix, 242 pp., biblio., $42.50.
Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup
Review Essay: Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, William F. Gentrup
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Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life, St. Martin's Press, 1989, xii, 180 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.
Review Essay: John Ogilby, The Entertainment Of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles Ii In His Passage Through The City Of London To His Coronation, Retha M. Warnicke
Review Essay: John Ogilby, The Entertainment Of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles Ii In His Passage Through The City Of London To His Coronation, Retha M. Warnicke
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John Ogilby, The Entertainment of His Most Excellent Majestie Charles II in His Passage through the City of London to His Coronation, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 43, 1988, 192 pp., ill., biblio., index, $30.00.
Marginality As Women's Freedom: The Case Of Floripe, Marian Rothstein
Marginality As Women's Freedom: The Case Of Floripe, Marian Rothstein
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When Jean Bagnyon chose to rewrite Fierabras for his contemporaries at the dawn of the printed book, strong fictional women who participated in their own name in the world, women not limited to domestic, advisory, or intercessory functions, were rare. Their scarcity did not end then. The interest of what follows must lie, at least in part, beyond Bagnyon's text and beyond Floripe herself. The purpose of subjecting the case of Floripe (sister of Fierabras) to close reading is in part to understand how this example of an active woman functions. My scrutiny of this text is also intended to …
Gaspara Stampa's Poetry For Performance, Janet L. Smarr
Gaspara Stampa's Poetry For Performance, Janet L. Smarr
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During the mid-sixteenth century in Italy, when a remarkable number of women joined in the production of poetry, one of the channels open to their pursuit of intellectual life and fame was the Venetian saloon. There music and poetry mingled as poems were frequently sung or recited before an audience rather than read privately in silence. The poetry of Gaspara Stampa was produced for this milieu. Published in 1554, a year after her death, her collection of more than three hundred poems has been approached in two main ways: as the autobiographical self-expression of a passionate woman and more recently …
Review Essay: Theresa Coletti, Naming The Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, And Modern Theory, Frede Jensen
Review Essay: Theresa Coletti, Naming The Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, And Modern Theory, Frede Jensen
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Theresa Coletti, Naming the Rose: Eco, Medieval Signs, and Modern Theory, Cornell University Press, 1988, xi, 212 pp., index, $30.00.
Review Essay: Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry Ii, King Of France: 1547-1559, Paul Solon
Review Essay: Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry Ii, King Of France: 1547-1559, Paul Solon
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Frederic J. Baumgartner, Henry II, King of France: 1547-1559, Duke University Press, 1988, xiv, 358 pp., biblio., index, $39.95.
Le Contrat Social, Une Œuvre Genevoise? L’École Du Droit Naturel Et Le Débat Politique À Genève. La Réponse De Rousseau, Helena Rosenblatt
Le Contrat Social, Une Œuvre Genevoise? L’École Du Droit Naturel Et Le Débat Politique À Genève. La Réponse De Rousseau, Helena Rosenblatt
Publications and Research
La question de l'influence de Genève sur les idées politiques et religieuses de Jean-Jacques Rousseau est discutée depuis plus de deux cents ans. Cependant, au cours des années, les suppositions méthodologiques sous-jacentes au débat sont restées fondamentalement les mêmes, et elles ont besoin d'être modifiées. C'est pourquoi il est encore nécéssaire de réexaminer un vieux sujet selon une nouvelle approche. Au lieu de voir Genève simplement en tant que source d'idées que Rousseau a pu adopter, il faudrait voir Genève comme fournissant des problèmes concrets et intellectuels que Rousseau a tâché de résoudre.
Hagiographical Parody In The Ysengrimus, Dennis J. Billy
Hagiographical Parody In The Ysengrimus, Dennis J. Billy
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Considered the first great expression of medieval Latin beast epic, the Ysengrimus, a mid-twelfth-century poem of 6,574 verses, has been hailed as a masterpiece of lampooning monastic parody and wit. Composed by an anonymous author (probably a monk of St. Peter's, Blandigny) in the environs of the then burgeoning Flemish city of Ghent, the poem follows the exploits of Ysengrimus, a ravenous wolf-monk of dubious intelligence whose unruly gastric and sexual appetites make him more often the prey than predator in his sundry endeavors. Until now, one area that has successfully eluded the attention of most Ysengrimus scholars is …
Mythological Lovers In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Katherine Heinrichs
Mythological Lovers In Chaucer's Troilus And Criseyde, Katherine Heinrichs
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Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is often criticized by modern scholars for the abruptness of its epilogue rejecting earthly love. Paull Baum objects that the moral of the epilogue is not, in fact, the moral of the tale and suggests that Chaucer might better have concluded in the manner of the stilnovisti, with Criseyde as a transfigured "gloriosa donna." J. S. P. Tatlock protests that "the feeling of the Epilog is in no way foreshadowed at the beginning or elsewhere; it does not illumine or modify; it contradicts. The heartfelt worldly tale is interpreted in an unworldly sense." He is …
From Campus To Campus: English University Life And The Renaissance Pastoral, Gary M. Bouchard
From Campus To Campus: English University Life And The Renaissance Pastoral, Gary M. Bouchard
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Literary critics have relied increasingly upon what we know of the particular goings-on at the court of Queen Elizabeth to explain all things we call Elizabethan, including a vast corpus of poetry. Pastoral poetry in particular, long regarded as an allegorical embodiment of court politics, is seen now more than ever as a product of social and political power struggles. I argue instead that the pastoral poetry of Renaissance England has to do with the academic world as much as, if not more than, with the ancillary world of the court, it was born of the academy, where Edmund Spenser …
Review Essay: Kevin Brownlee And Walter Stephens, Eds., Discourses Of Authority In Medieval And Renaissance Literature, Michael Rudick
Review Essay: Kevin Brownlee And Walter Stephens, Eds., Discourses Of Authority In Medieval And Renaissance Literature, Michael Rudick
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Kevin Brownlee and Walter Stephens, eds., Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature, University Press of New England, 1989, x, 309 pp., biblio., index, $35.00.
Review Essay: Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey Of Sanctification, Madison U. Sowell
Review Essay: Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey Of Sanctification, Madison U. Sowell
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Antonio C. Mastrobuono, Dante's Journey of Sanctification, Regnery Gateway, 1990, xiii, 279 pp., ill., biblio., $14.95.
Review Essay: Robert R. Edwards, The Dream Of Chaucer: Representation And Reflection In The Early Narratives, Sigmund Eisner
Review Essay: Robert R. Edwards, The Dream Of Chaucer: Representation And Reflection In The Early Narratives, Sigmund Eisner
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Robert R. Edwards, The Dream of Chaucer: Representation and Reflection in the Early Narratives, Duke University Press, 1989, xvi, 192 pp., biblio., $34.95.
Review Essay: María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La Ciudad De Palencia En El Siglo Xv: Aportación Al Estudio De Las Ciudades Castellanas En La Baja Eedad Media, J. B. Owens
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María Jesús Fuente Pérez, La ciudad de Palencia en el siglo xv: Aportación al estudio de las ciudades castellanas en la Baja Edad Media, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1989.
Rafael Sánchez Saus, Caballería y linaje en la Sevilla medieval: Estudio genealógico y social, Diputación Provincial de Sevilla and Universidad de Cádiz, 1989, 531 pp., 2500 pesatas esp.
Review Essay: Michael Aston, David Austin, And Christopher Dyer, Eds., The Rural Settlements Of Medieval England: Studies Dedicated To Maurice Beresford And John Hurst, Raymond S. Wright Iii
Review Essay: Michael Aston, David Austin, And Christopher Dyer, Eds., The Rural Settlements Of Medieval England: Studies Dedicated To Maurice Beresford And John Hurst, Raymond S. Wright Iii
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Michael Aston, David Austin, and Christopher Dyer, eds., The Rural Settlements of Medieval England: Studies Dedicated to Maurice Beresford and John Hurst, Basil Blackwell, 1989, x, 318 pp., ill., maps, index, $65.00.