Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from June 2008

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from June 2008

Globalizing Jewish communities: mapping a Jewish geography in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales.(Critical essay)(Essay)
June 22, 2008... This essay moves beyond the bounds of the Prioress's Tale to explore alternative texts that Chaucer probably never consulted yet whose histories resonate in Chaucer's work in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales. These tales of Fragment VII...

George Puttenham's lewd and illicit career.(Biography)
June 22, 2008... Two works establish George Puttenham's claim to our attention as a significant Elizabethan writer. He is best known as the probable author of The Art of English Poesy (1589), a book unanimously considered by scholars "the central text of...

Disputing good bishop's English: Martin Marprelate and the voice of Menippean opposition.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... The Martion Marprelate affair, the most notorious polemical dispute in an age renowned for the quantity and intensity of its religious controversies, scandalized late-Elizabethan England by shifting the question of Church reform into the public...

Heroic contradictions: Samson and the death of Turnus.(John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' and 'Samson Agonistes')(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... At key moments in both of his epics, Milton seems to reject the type of heroism traditionally associated with the epic genre. In Paradise Lost 9 he dismisses tales that glorify destructive passions such as: the wrauth Of stern...