Product Description: This collection brings together twelve selected papers given at the Second Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Because the courtly ethos is the central phenomenon marking medieval vernacular literature, it provides a theme that serves as an ideological guide through the later Middle Ages and on into the Renaissance and as a framework for the essays collected in this volume...read more

Product Description: If the old aphorism is to be believed, «Spain begins at the Pyrenees». This European and Spanish proclamation of difference or uniqueness is born out, in a sense, but also turned on its head by this collection of essays by an eminent group of American Hispanicists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A selection of fourteen of the most characteristic and influential of Keith Whinnom's published articles and papers. Topics covered include Celestina, narrative religious verse, sentimental romance and cancionero love-lyric. Keith Whinnom's inaugural lecture at Exeter forms the centre-piece of a recurrent concern with literary historiography, cultural traditions and generic classification...read more