Kevin Brownlee

E. Leigh Syms

Manitoba Museum

The Owl Inini, Carver Inini and Dancer Ikwe

Stories of the Old Ones from the Lee River, Southeastern Manitoba

Valeria Finucci

This collection explores the construction of genealogies both in the biological sense of procreation and in the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.

Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe

Generation and Degeneration

Walter Stephens

Twelve distinguished scholars examine the question of authority in literature from the 12th to the 16th century. Specialists in Italian, French, & Spanish offer close readings of literary & philosophical texts & provide a variety of critical & theoretical approaches, including authorial self, canon formation, counterfeit, intertextuality, & historical context.

Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature

Stephen G.. Nichols

Stephen G. Nichols

Marina Scordilis Brownlee

"This is a substantial and readable volume, and it is supplied with a rich array of documentation in the notes and bibliography. It deals with a question of critical importance for current research on medieval 'literature': namely, the relationship between this literature and us... This is an important collection, and one may congratulate the editors of their ambitious undertaking."--Paul Zumthor, Speculum.

The New Medievalism

Sylvia Huot

Reader in Medieval French Literature and Fellow Sylvia Huot

The Romance of the Rose has been a controversial text since it was written in the thirteenth century. There is evidence for radically different readings as as early as the first half of the fourteenth century. The text provided inspiration for both courtly and didactic poets. Some read it as a celebration of human love; others as an erudite philosophical work; still others as a satirical representation of social and sexual follies. On one hand it was praised as an edifying treatise, on the other condemned as lascivious and misogynistic. Kevin Brownlee and Sylvia Huot and the contributors to this volume—Pierre-Yves Badel, Emmanuele Baumgartner, John V. Fleming, Robert Pogue Harrison, David F. Hult, Stephen G. Nichols, Lee Patterson, Daniel Poirion, Karl D. Uitti, Dieuwke E. van der Poel, and Lori Walters—represent all the major areas of current work on the Romance of the Rose, both in American and in Europe. The volume will be of value to students and scholars of medieval literature, intellectual history, and art history.

Text, Image, Reception

Rethinking the "Romance of the Rose"

Second, the methodological heterogeneity of the past three decades of Rose research has been extremely fruitful.".

Kevin Brownlee

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