The Learned and the lewed : studies in Chaucer and medieval literature

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The Learned and the lewed : studies in Chaucer and medieval literature

edited by Larry D. Benson

(Harvard English studies, 5)

Harvard University Press, 1974

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  • : pbk

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"Written for Bartlett Jere Whiting by his students."

Includes bibliographical references

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Description

The essays gathered in this volume, organized around the theme of medieval literature, display a great range of subjects and of critical approaches. One third of the pieces deal with Chaucer: his use of mythology, his characters, narrative techniques, his treatment of courtly love. Other contributions focus on medieval proverbs and ballads, medieval use of classical authors, John Gower, Lydgate, Icelandic saga, the Middle Scots poets, problems of teaching medieval drama in twentieth-century classrooms, French influences on Middle English literature, and the tale of Robin Hood.

Table of Contents

Bartlett Jere Whiting David Staines Now (This), Now (That) and BD 646 Leger Brosnahan How Marcia Lost Her Skin: A Note on Chaucer's Mythology Alfred David The Clerk of Venus: Chaucer and Medieval Romance R. T. Lenaghan The Image of Paradise in the Merchant's Tale Kenneth A. Bleeth Chaucer's Clerk as Teacher Robert Longsworth In Search of Chaucer: The Needed Narrative Christopher Brookhouse Speculation, Intention, and the Teaching of Chaucer George F. Reinecke Chaucer's Courtly Love Edmund Reiss The Heart and the Chain John Leyerle The Terror of the Dark Waters: A Note on Virgilian and Beowulfian Techniques Alain Renoir he Art of High Prosaic Seriousness: John Gower as Didactic Raconteur Anthony E. Farnham A Plea for the Middle Scots Florence H. Ridley F. J. Child and the Ballad James Reppert "When Adam Delved. .": Contexts of a Historic Proverb Albert B. Friedman The Medieval Terence Paul Theiner Christian Form and Christian Meaning in Halldors Tattr I Joseph Harris Reynard the Fox and the Manipulation of the Popular Proverb Donald B. Sands Lydgate the Hagiographer as Literary Artist James I. Miller, Jr. John Lydgate and the Proverbial Tiger Elizabeth Walsh, RSCJ Teaching Medieval Drama as Theatre Stanley J. Kahrl How Much Was Known of the Breton Lai in Fourteenth-Century England? John B. Beston Middle English Emare and the Cloth Worthily Wrought Mortimer J. Donovan Le Bone Florence of Rome: A Middle English Adaptation of a French Romance Anne Thompson Lee The Gest of Robin Hood Revisited J. B. Bessinger, Jr. "Honour & Right" in Arthur of Little Britain Alice B. Morgan A Deliberate Analogue of Fitt I of Thomas of Erceldoune William Alfred The Writings of Bartlett Jere Whiting McKay Sundwall

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