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Medieval Vernacular Literature: Literary Criticism

Library and Internet resources about medieval literature in European vernacular languages.

Overview

Introductory sources that cut across linguisitic divisions.

Surveys and Anthologies
Comparative Studies
Journals
Publisher Series

Journals

Revue de littérature comparée
Arcadia
The comparatist
Published by University of North Carolina Press
Comparative critical studies
Published by Edinburgh University Press

Publisher Series

Includes mostly series that publish critical editions across a variety of languages.

Surveys and Anthologies

Lancelot
British Library MS Royal 20 D IV , f. 260

A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by Carol Dover (Editor)
Call Number: PQ1489.L213 C66 2003
A Handbook of the Troubadours by F. R. P. Akehurst; Judith M. Davis
Call Number: PC3304 .H36 1995
Classical and medieval literature criticism
Call Number: PN610 .C53

Pius Reference
Classical and medieval literature criticism [electronic resource]
Excerpts from criticism of the works of world authors from classical antiquity through the fourteenth century, from first appraisals to current evaluations.
Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature by Robert Thomas Lambdin; Laura C. Lambdin
Call Number: PN669 .E53 2000

Pius Reference
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius; Willard R. Trask, Peter Godman, eds.
Call Number: PN674 .C82 1990
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800
Call Number: PN86 .L52

Pius Reference
Literature criticism from 1400 to 1800 [electronic resource]
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance by Roberta L. Krueger (Editor)
Call Number: PN671 .C36 2000
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing by Carolyn Dinshaw (Editor); David Wallace (Editor)
Call Number: PN682.W6 C36 2003

Comparative Studies

Translating Truth by Aden Kumler
Publication Date: 2011-07-26

ISBN: 9780300164930
Language and Culture in Medieval Britain by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor)
Call Number: PE525 .L36 2009
The Gift of Tongues by Christine F. Cooper-Rompato
ISBN: 9780271036168

Publication Date: 2010

Women's Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages
Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur' by Catherine Batt
ISBN: 9780312229986

Publication Date: 2002

Remaking Arthurian Tradition
Sharing Story by Paul Beekman Taylor
Call Number: PR182 .T39 1998

Medieval Norse-English Literary Relationships
Magic in Medieval Romance by Michelle Sweeney
Call Number: PN682.M34 S94 2000

From Chrétien de Troyes to Geoffrey Chaucer
Medieval History and Culture by Dominique Battles
Call Number: PN687.S38 B38 2004

History and narrative in the OF Roman de Thèbes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate