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Public declamations : essays on medieval rhetoric, education, and letters in honour of Martin Camargo
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ISBN: 9782503547770 250354777X 250354827X Year: 2015 Volume: 27 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

The making of Chaucer's English : a study of words
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ISBN: 0521592747 Year: 1998 Volume: 39 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

Medieval rhetorics of prose composition : five English artes dictandi and their tradition
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ISBN: 0866981683 Year: 1995 Volume: 115 Publisher: Binghamton ; New York Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies

Representation and design : tracing a hermeneutics of Old English poetry
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ISBN: 0791432041 Year: 1997 Volume: *2 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press


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Of sins and sermons
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ISBN: 9789042931749 9782758402268 9042931744 2758402262 Year: 2015 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leuven : Peeters,

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"Seventeen previously published papers, here updated and revised, and one hitherto unpublished essay explore the medieval notion of the Seven Deadly Sins and several aspects of medieval sermons"--Cover page 4.

Political allegory in late medieval England
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ISBN: 0801435609 0801474655 Year: 1999 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era-among them, William Langland, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Gawain-poet-offered in their works of fiction timely commentary on current events and public issues. Poems previously regarded as only vaguely political in their subject matter are seen by Astell to be highly detailed and specific in their veiled historical references, implied audiences, and admonitions. Astell begins by describing the Augustinian and Boethian rhetorical principles involved in the invention of allegory. She then compares literary and historical treatments of key events in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, finding an astonishing match of allusions and code words, especially those deriving from puns, titles, heraldic devices, and personal cognizances, as well as repeated proverbs, prophecies, and exempla. Among the works she discusses are John Ball's Letters and parts of Piers Plowman, which she presents as two examples of allegorical literature associated with the Peasants' Revolution of 1381; Gower's allegorical representation of the Merciless Parliament of 1388 in Confessio Amantis; and Chaucer's brilliant literary handling of key events in the reign of Richard II. In addition Astell argues for a precise dating of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight between 1397 and 1399 and decodes the work as a political allegory.

Malory's Morte Darthur : remaking Arthurian tradition
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ISBN: 0312229984 9780312229986 Year: 2002 Volume: *4 Publisher: New York Basingstoke : Palgrave,

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This study innovatively explores how Malory's Morte D'Arthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions which the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Negotiating these influences, Malory transforms constructions of masculine heroism, especially in the presentation of Launcelot, and exposes the tensions and disillusions of the Arthurian project. The Morte poignantly conveys a desire for integrity in narrative and subject-matter, but at the same time tests literary conceptualizations of history, nationalism, gender and selfhood, and considers the failures of social and legal institutionalizations of violence, in a critique of literary form and of social order.

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