Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
English shepherds' carols and the medieval arts |
1974 |
504 |
The English Shepherds' Carols are herein viewed through illumination by the other arts of the medieval age. Links exist between the visual arts, the performing arts, and the literature of the Middle Ages through a common nourishing soil: the Catholic... |
An approach to characterization in Chaucer |
1977 |
1126 |
Criticism of Chaucer's characters in Troilus and Criseyde has been profoundly marked by a controversy over the nature of Chaucer's approach to poetics. On the one hand, there are those critics who approach Chaucer from the modern standpoint, seeking ... |
Artistic integrity in Woodstock |
1970 |
341 |
Study of the anonymous Elizabethan drama Woodstock has heretofore been directed externally to the play's relationship to Marlowe's Edward II and to Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI and Richard II. Much attention has been devoted to an explanation of the lite... |
Nature and its background in The parliament of fowls and Piers Plowman |
1968 |
753 |
The allegorical figure of Nature has been prominent in English literature since about 1350 and bears with it a long and changing literary tradition. Medieval authors who personified Nature adopted those aspects of this goddess which best suited their... |
The Roberts English Series : an analysis |
1969 |
2083 |
The general acceptance of Noam Chomsky's theory of transformational grammar has polarized opinion among educators, some viewing it as no more fruitful than the school grammar it replaces, others ascribing to it vital powers for laying open language s... |
Style in Malory's book of Balin |
1977 |
534 |
The purpose of this study is to reveal the beginning of Malory's selfconscious artistry as it is exhibited in his book of Balin. I attempt to reveal this through an examination of his prose style, primarily by viewing the changes lie makes in his Fre... |