Philological Quarterly articles from September 2003

Philological Quarterly archives from September 2003

Psychology of a king: Arthur in the Lancelot-Graal cycle.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2003... Although king of the Arthurian universe, the figure of Arthur in much of medieval literature is a remarkably simple one. Depicted first as a powerful warlord in the Welsh and Latin traditions, he becomes a passive and often weak character in...

Telling differences: Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2003... Scholars considering the relationship between Chaucer's Tale of Melibee and its source generally assume that the tale is simply a relentlessly faithful rendition of Renaud de Louens' Livre de Mellibee et Prudence. Virtually everyone who...

Metapoetry in Edmund Spenser's Amoretti.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2003... For all that nature by her mother wit Could frame in earth, and forme of substance base, Was there, and all that nature did omit, Art playing second natures part, supplyed it.--The Faerie Queene, 4.10.21.6-9 This famous description of the...

The second Tower of Babel: Ana Castillo's Borgesian precursors in the Mixquiahuala Letters.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2003... Reading Ana Castillo's Mixquiahuala Letters with a strong understanding of its religious context and its inter-textual relationships increases one's potential to locate the numerous lines of thought anchored in its transnational literary...

Books received.
September 22, 2003... LANGUAGE CLASSICS INCLUDING LATER LATIN Aperghis, G. G. The Seleukid Royal Economy. Cambridge U. Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 361. $90.00. Bowden, Hugh. Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle. Cambridge U. Press, 2005. Pp. xviii + 188....