Literary TheoryPaul Maurice Clogan Rowman & Littlefield, 1989 - 218 pages |
Contents
Modes of Closure in Old English Poetry | 1 |
From Gods Book to the Play of the Text in the Cosmographia | 51 |
Redefining the Middle English Breton Lay | 73 |
Reading the Prophetia Jonae | 97 |
Pearl and the Idea of Jerusalem | 117 |
Allegories of Amorous Imprisonment in Medieval Spanish Literature | 134 |
Authorization and Appropriation in the Renaissance | 154 |
The Renaissance of the Renaissance Woman | 166 |
Renaissance Semantics and Metamorphoses | 179 |
Aristocracy and Peasantry in Medieval and Early Modern France | 191 |
A Review Article | 197 |
From Patrimonialism Toward the Modern Bureaucratic State | 209 |
Review Notices | 215 |
Books Received | 216 |
Common terms and phrases
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