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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"medieval poetry"”.
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Women at War in Early Medieval Poetry and Late Medieval Romance
In early Medieval English poetry and late Medieval romance, there are multiple roles violent women perform. They can be protagonist, antagonist, and supporting character. They prove to be active characters with strength, skill, intelligence, and power. In early Medieval English poetry, Grendel's …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to medieval rhetoric, literary theory, and hermeneutics. For Longinus, the sublime produces transport out of language through great thoughts and great …
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Rhetoric Realigned: The Development of Poetic Theory in English and Scottish Writing c.1470-1530
… and Alexander Barclay, as well as influential poetry by Robert Henryson and John Skelton, it demonstrates that the contours and preoccupations of rhetorical poetics in England and Scotland emerged long before the appearance of such seminal works as Philip Sidney’s Apologie for Poetrie (c.1580) …
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Science and Natural Philosophy in the Poetry of Heinrich von Meissen (Frauenlob)
The poetry of the Middle High German vernacular poet Heinrich von Meißen, better known as Frauenlob (ca. 1250/60–1318), is infamous for its hermeneutic difficulty, derived from the poet’s linguistic novelties and erudite use of intellectual source material. Recent scholarship has rescued the poet …