Genres, themes, and images in English literature
Subtitle: from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century : the J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Perugia, 1986
By: Piero Boitani, Anna Torti (eds.).
Contributors: Boitani, Piero.; Torti, Anna.
Series: Tübinger Beiträge zur Anglistik ;; 11
Publisher: Gunter Narr
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Themes, motives.; Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This volume contains the fifth series of lectures [J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures] held in Perugia to remember and celebrate him ..."--P. [9].
Table of contents: title: Chaucer and courtly speech / Larry D. Benson; title: Some reflections on the Tale of Sir Thopao / Shinsuke Ando; title: Chaucer's Knight and some of his fellow-fighters / Przemyslan Mroczkowski; title: The threefold concept of love in Usk's Testament / Renzo Donati; title: From 'Shyvalere de charyot' to 'The knyght that rode in the charyot' / Vulgate Lamelot; title: Fourteenth- and fifteenth-century writers as readers of Chaucer / Paul Strohm; title: Kynde craft and the Play of paramorez / A.V.C. Schmidt; title: Sacramental perfection in Pearl, patience and cleaness / Anna P. Baldwin; title: Research and the Medieval English mystics / Wolfgang Riehle; title: The problem of Parody / Theo Stemmler; title: Literary and other languages in Middle English / N.F. Blake; title: Insecurity in Skelton's Bowge of courte / John Scattergood; title: The Randal ballad / Karl Heinz Göller; title: The poet and the book / John Burrow.