Through a classical eye : transcultural and transhistorical visions in medieval English, Italian and Latin literature in honour of Winthrop Wetherbee / / edited by Andrew Galloway and R.F. Yeager

• Pubblicazione: Toronto ; ; Buffalo, NY, : University of Toronto Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (445 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.02
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
• Altri autori: WetherbeeWinthrop <1938-> YeagerRobert F GallowayAndrew
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The school of Wetherbee / Andrew Galloway -- Winthrop Wetherbee : a bibliography of scholarship, 1969-2008 -- Catullus among the Christians / Joseph Pucci -- Hisperic faminations / Danuta Shanzer -- Silvestrius : 'Silva' : 'Selva oscurra' / Jeremy Tambling -- Alain of Lille's use of 'naufragium' in De planctu naturae / R.F. Yeager -- 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 -- 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 -- The 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 / María Bullón-Fernández -- Blowing blindness in Cleanness (line 885) / Thomas D. Hill -- The economy of involucrum : idleness in Reason and sensuality / James Simpson -- Thirty years of lunches / Robert Morgan.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Through a classical eye
• ISBN: 1-4426-9323-1; 1-4426-8943-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511408103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II