The Romaunt of the Rose: Additional Evidence That It Is Chaucer's
THERE are five poems included in modern editions of Chaucer's works that are now generally recognized as not his. These are The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, The Complaint of a Lover's Life, The Flower...
View ArticleThe "Uniformity" of the Ballad Style
" It is a significant fact," says a well-known writer on ballads,' "that wherever found, the ballad style and manner are essentially the same." Many make the same generalization. But this is true only...
View ArticleKing Cnut's Song and Ballad Origins
King Cnut's song, according to Professor Gummere gives us our “first example of actual ballad structure and the ballad's metrical form, which is to be met in English records." He quotes the account...
View ArticleIntrusive Nasals in English
A few years ago the present writer directed attention to some instances of intrusive nasals in contemporary speech, American and English, and suggested that in the greater part of these instances...
View ArticleArnold's Sources for Schrab and Rustum
It is generally assumed, either explicitly or by inference that Matthew Arnold's Schrab and Rustum (1853) is based on the story as told in the abridgment of the Sháhnáma of Firdawsí by the Rev. J. A....
View ArticleNotes on Tennyson's Lancelot and Elaine
The chief sources of Tennyson's Idylls are, as so well known, Malory's Morte Darthur and the Mabinogion. Secondary sources are the chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth, from whom the poet derived a few...
View ArticleAnother Version of the Ballad of Lord Randal
THE following version of the familiar ballad known variously as "Lord Randal," "Lord Ronald," and so on, was discovered by Mr. H. C. House, of Kingfisher College, Oklahoma, sung in a railroad camp at...
View ArticleTHE ENGLISH BALLADS AND THE CHURCH
Many origins have been suggested for the type of narrative song appearing in the English and Scottish traditional ballads: minstrel genesis, origin in the dance, improvisations of media3val peasant...
View ArticleTHE BEGINNINGS OF POETRY
The songs of primitive peoples have received much attention in recent years, especially the songs of the American Indians. An immense amount of material has been collected and made available; and this...
View ArticleTHE SOUTHWESTERN COWBOY SONGS AND THE ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS
Several writers recently have found analogy between the conditions attending the growth of cowboy songs in isolated communities in the Southwest, and the conditions under which arose the English and...
View ArticleMelodrama, Masochism, and Biopolitical Encounters in The Fosters
Since the television drama The Fosters, which centers on the daily struggles of two lesbian moms (Stef Foster and Lena Adams) and their multi-ethnic family of foster and adoptive children, debuted on...
View ArticleChaucer's Epic Statement and the Political Milieu of the Late Fourteenth Century
Sets Knight's Tale in the tradition of political verse, and argues that the tale encourages peace in the domestic and foreign affairs of Chaucer's England. The hortatory, heroic style of the tale...
View ArticleWilliam Shakespeare’s All Is True, Lord Chamberlain’s “Truth,” and Civil...
The first title for Shakespeare’s Henry VIII—All Is True—may reflect standard early modern usage signifying that all is an aspect of ‘troth’ or loyalty, all is common understanding, or all is received...
View ArticleLamberton, Robert. Homer the Theologian: Neoplatonist Allegorical Readings...
This book is excellent both for classicists and Spenserians, for the latter not only because Homer is the (direct or indirect) source for many episodes in The Faerie Queene but because the modes of...
View ArticleJoining a Conversation Research Project
Description: This unit is a culminating (end-of-semester) project designed to have students bring together the knowledge they have developed throughout the semester in the service of purposefully...
View ArticleInterpretation and Ovidian Myth in ,i>Alexander’s Bridge and O Pioneers!
This essay describes interpretive strategies widely applied to Ovidian mythic materials during the period of Cather’s early career, especially those operative in Alexander’s Bridge and O Pioneers! The...
View ArticleReflections on the Victorian(ist) Impulse to Totalize Africa
IN this essay, I offer some reflections on how Victorianists might understand nineteenth- and early twentieth-century discursive practices for mapping Africa. In doing this, I respond to what Sukanya...
View ArticlePedagogical Alliances Among Writing Instructors and Teaching Librarians...
In this praxis piece, a WPA and a writing instructor describe a writing information literacy community of practice among writing instructors and teaching librarians. Through paying attention to one...
View ArticleIdiomatic Surrogacy and (Dis)Ability in Dombey and Son
To assert that Charles Dickens possessed a mastery of language unique among nineteenth-century novelists for its vernacular inventiveness is hardly controversial. The Oxford Dictionary of English...
View ArticleThe Politics of Tools
A consideration of the political meaning of software that tries to add greater philosophical precision to statements about the politics of tools and tool building in the humanities. Using Michael...
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