The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance LiteratureDavid G. Allen, Robert A. White Nineteen scholars offer readings that address the continuity or discontinuity between the literature of the Renaissance and Middle Ages. Essays by Arthur F. Kinney, R. A. Shoaf, and O. B. Hardison focus on broader trends while shorter essays approach the periods by addressing particular themes in their literature or thought. |
Contents
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Narrative Pessimism and Textual Optimism in Chaucers | 35 |
Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde and the Idea of Pleye | 48 |
A New Analogue for Bertilaks | 57 |
Two Routes to Pleasant Instruction in LateFourteenth | 67 |
Historiography on the Eve of the Reformation in an Early | 81 |
The Desanctification of the Beggar in Rogue Pamphlets | 91 |
The Petrarchanism of Sir Thomas Wyatt Reconsidered | 131 |
Wyatts Appropriation of | 148 |
Raleghs Discoverie of Guiana and the Elizabethan Model | 166 |
Spensers | 196 |
Suggestions of Hope | 216 |
The Promised Endings of King Lear | 235 |
Biblical Allusions and Intertextual Assurances in George | 257 |
Contributors | 286 |
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