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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, LITERARY THEORY AND RHETORIC

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Feminist:

• Medieval Feminist Thought / Feminist Perspectives on Medieval Thought

Post-colonial:

• Medieval Non-Western Thought / Post-colonial Perspectives on Medieval Thought

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2007:

2006:

2005:

• Conversion, Medieval Colloquium, Department of English, Harvard University, September 22-25

2004:

• Seeing Things: Vision in the Middle Ages, Medieval Guild, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, October 16

• Once and Future Medievalism, Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, September 27-28

• Recovering Reading: Reception Histories and Medieval Texts: Methodological and Historiographical Considerations, School of English, Queen's University Belfast, April 14-16

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2002:

2001:

2000:

COURSES

JOURNALS

PERSONS

Literary Authors:

• Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)

• Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304 - 1374)

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)

• Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343 - 1400)

Literary Theorists:

• St. Augustine (354 - 430)

• St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)

• Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)

• Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)

Rhetoricians and Hermeneuticists:

• St. Augustine (354 - 430)

• St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Literature:
  • Literary Theory:
    • Bloom, Harold, ed.  Art of the Critic: Literary Theory and Criticism from the Greeks to the Present: Classical and Medieval.  New York: Chelsea, 1985.
    • Minnis, Alastair, and A. B. Scott, eds.  Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100 - c. 1375: the Commentary Tradition.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
    • Preminger, A., O. Hardison, and Kevin Kerrane, eds.  Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations.  New York: Fredereick Ungar, 1974.
    • Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn, Nicholas Watson, Andrew Taylor, and Ruth Evans, eds.  The Idea of the Vernacular: an Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory, 1280-1520.  University Park, PA: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999.
  • Rhetoric:
    • Miller, Joseph M., et al., eds.  Readings in Medieval Rhetoric.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1973.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  Three Medieval Rhetorical Arts.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1971.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Literature:
  • Literary Theory:
  • Rhetoric:
    • Matthew of Vendome.  Ars Versificatoria.  1175?.
    • Geoffrey of Vinsauf.  Poetria Nova.  1200-1216.
    • Robert of Basevorn.   The Form of Preaching. 

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Literary Criticism:
    • Brownlee, Marina S., Kevin Brownlee, and Stephen G. Nichols, eds.  The New Medievalism.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1991.

  • Literary Theory:

    • Minnis, Alastair, and Ian Johnson, eds.  The Middle Ages.  Vol. 2 of Cambridge History of Literary Criticism.  Cambridge: CUP, 2004.

  • Rhetoric:

    • Breisach, Ernst, ed.  Classical Rhetoric and Medieval Historiography.  Kalamazoo: Western Michigan UP, 1985.

    • Carruthers, Mary J.  The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200.  Cambridge: CUP, 2000.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  Medieval Eloquence: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Medieval Rhetoric.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1978.

    • Murphy, James J., ed.  Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: a History of Rhetorical Theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance.  Berkeley: U of California P, 1974.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Literary Criticism:

    • Auerbach, Eric.  "Typological Symbolism in Medieval Literature."  Yale French Studies 9 (1952): .

    • Curtius, Ernst Robert.  European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.  Trans. Willard Trask.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.

  • Literary Theory:

    • Atkins, J. W. H.  English Literary Criticism: the Medieval Phase.  London: Methuen, 1934.

    • Harland, Richard.  "Literary Theory in the Middle Ages."  Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.  22-28. 

    • Minnis, Alastair.  Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages.  London: Scolar Press, 1984.

    • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "The Neo-Platonic Conclusion: Plotinus and Some Medieval Themes."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  112-136.

    • Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Further Medieval Themes."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  139-154.

  • Rhetoric:

    • Dunbar, H. F.  Symbolism in Medieval Thought.  1929.

    • McKeon, Richard.  "Poetry and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century: the Renaissance of Rhetoric."  Modern Philology (1946): .  

      • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  297-318.

    • McKeon, Richard.  "Rhetoric in the Middle Ages."  Speculum 17 (1942): 1-32. 
      • Critics and Criticism: Ancient and Modern.  Ed. R. S. Crane.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1952.  260-296.

On-Line:

• Maritain, Jacques: Art and Scholasticism

• Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Category Medieval Literature:

    • Medieval Literature

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WWW GATEWAYS

• Luminarium: Anthology of Middle English Literature (1350-1485)

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