DISPUT 19 Romance and Rhetoric, Donavin: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9782503531496)

This volume honours the academic career of Professor Dhira B. Mahoney, recently retired from the Department of English at Arizona State University, who is well known for her rhetorical readings of medieval literature. Professor Mahoney's scholarship employs rhetorical theory in readings of late medieval literature, particularly prologues and epilogues, women's writings, and Arthuriana. As a response to her work, Romance and Rhetoric offers rhetorical readings of a variety of literary pieces from the late Middle Ages, especially for those authors and genres on which Professor Mahoney has published. Its collected essays provide interdisciplinary studies of art, social and literary history, manuscript transmission, and women's studies in relation to texts in Middle English, Latin, German, and French. In particular, the essays in this volume focus on the writings of courtly authors such as Chaucer, Lydgate, Malory, Guillaume de Machaut, Christine de Pizan, Chrétien de Troyes, and others. In keeping with the ancient tradition of analysing rhetorical principles in the structure of an art work, they also examine the rhetoric of the manuscript art connected to these authors and the genres in which they wrote. This volume thus fills a gap in medieval literary scholarship, as it evaluates with scrutiny how rhetorical teachings or medieval poetic strategies inform the writing of romances.

Author: Georgiana Donavin
ISBN-10: 2503531490
ISBN-13: 9782503531496
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2010
Pages: 281
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 224