MEDIEVAL LITERATURE, LITERARY THEORY AND RHETORIC

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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Literary Authors:

Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321)
Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) (1304 - 1374)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 - 1375)
Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343 - 1400)

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Rhetoricians:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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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.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

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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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