Through a classical eye : transcultural and transhistorical visions in medieval English, Italian and Latin literature in honour of Winthrop Wetherbee /

Contains first-rate essays that demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking transcultural and transhistorical studies of the late medieval period, and examines medieval literature and culture where English, Italian, and Latin materials overlap.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Scholars Portal
Other Authors: Wetherbee, Winthrop, 1938-, Yeager, Robert F., Galloway, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2009
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • School of Wetherbee / Andrew Galloway
  • Winthrop Wetherbee: A Bibliography of Scholarship, 1969-2008
  • Pt. 1. Auctores
  • Catullus among the Christians / Joseph Pucci
  • Hisperic Fuminations / Danuta Shanzer
  • Silvestris: 'Silvu': 'Selva oscura' / Jeremy Tambling
  • Alain of Lille's Use of 'Naufragium' in De Planctu Naturae / R. F. Yeager
  • Pt. 2. Italy and the World
  • Medieval Intellectual Biography: The Case of Guido Faba / Rita Copeland
  • Europe and Rome: Spectacle and Geometry of Justice, Paradiso XVIII-XX / Giuseppe Mazzotta
  • From Simile to Prologue: Geography as Link in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer / Warren Ginsberg
  • Boccaccio's Greek Philology: A Rediscovered Country / Teresa A. Kennedy
  • Saladin and the Truth of Religion in Decameron I. 3 and X. 9 / Jim Rhodes
  • Griselde before Chaucer: Love between Men, Women, and Farewell Art / David Wallace
  • Pt. 3. England and Beyond
  • New Science, Old Dance: The Clerk and the Wife of Bath at Philology / Thomas C. Stillinger
  • Another 'Lollere in the wynd'? The Miller, the Bible, and the Destruction of Doors / Christina Von Nolcken
  • Chaucer's Englishing of Latin Wordplay / Frederick Ahl
  • Once More into the Breech: The Pardoner's Prize 'Relyk' / Alastair J. Minnis
  • Windows and Wounds in Fragment I of the Canterbury Tales / Disa Gambera
  • Voice of an Exile: From Ovidian Lament to Prophecy in Book I of John Gower's Vox Clamantis / Yoshiko Kobayashi
  • Gower and Ovid: Pygmalion and the (Dis)illusion of the Word / Maria Bullon-Fernandez
  • Blowing Blindness in Cleanness (line 885) / Thomas D. Hill
  • Economy of Involucrum: Idleness in Reason and Sensuality / James Simpson
  • Thirty Years of Lunches / Robert Morgan.