The rhetorical poetics of the Middle Ages : reconstructive polyphony : essays in honor of Robert O. Payne /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hill, John M., Sinnreich-Levi, Deborah M., Payne, Robert O.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison [N.J.] : London : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Associated University Press, [2000]
Subjects:	Poetry, Medieval > History and criticism. Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation. Rhetoric, Medieval. Poetics.

Table of Contents:

Eustache Deschamps' L'Art de dictier: just what kind of poetics is it?-or how Robert O. Payne launched my career in Deschamps studies / Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi
Chaucer: beginnings / Charles W. Owen
"The mystery of the bed chamber": mnemotechnique and vision in Chaucer's The book of the duchess / Mary Carruthers
Chaucer's selective "remembrance": ironies of "fyn loving" and the ideal feminine / Joel Feimer
The interior decoration of his mind: exegesis in the house of Fame / Ellen E. Martin
Chaucer's "bad art": the interrupted tales / Martin Stevens
"Me thynketh it a thyng impertinent": inaugurating dialogic discourse in the Prologue to the Clerk's tale / William McClellan
Sandrine's fable: courtly discourse and courtly behavior / Johanna C. Prins
Ockham, Chaucer, and the emergence of modern poetics / Burt Kimmelman
Text as arena: lament and gnome in The wanderer / Sealy Gilles
The Alba lady, sex-roles, and social roles: "who peyntede the leon, tel me who?" / Gale Sigal
The veil and the knot: Petrarch's humanistic poetic / Diane R. Marks
The role of the feminine in Dante's model of literary influence / Anne Howland Schotter
The Body of/as evidence: desire, eloquence, and the construction of society in Decameron 7.8 / Robert W. Hanning.