Medieval Rhetoric
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Formula, Character, and Context
Latin rhetorical theory in thirteenth and fourteenth century Castile
The meter and melody of Beowulf
Medieval rhetoric and poetic (to 1400)
Chaucer and the Consolation of philosophy of Boethius
The sources of Chaucer's poetics
Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
Late Medieval Epistle
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the debate of love
Beowulf and the appositive style
Plots and Powers
A guide to Chaucer's language
Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric
Structure in medieval narrative
Verbal dueling in heroic narrative
Writing aloud
Alliterative poetry in Middle English
Allegory and mirror
Cain and Beowulf
The conspiracy of allusion
The structure of Old Norse Dróttkvætt poetry
Robert Henryson's tragic vision
Medieval Reading
Poetic individuality in the Middle Ages
Seeing the Gawain-poet
Fifteenth century translation as an influence on English prose
A theory of Middle English alliterative meter
Readings in medieval rhetoric
Malory's book of arms
Political allegory in late medieval England
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