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Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, eds.
Interpretation: Medieval and Modern. The J. A. W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, Eighth Series, Perugia, 1992.
Published Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
Series: Bennett Memorial Lectures.
ISBN 0859913821.
Binding: hardback, sitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: St. Edmundbsury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 160x241x22mm.
Page count: viii,212pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good to very good: this copy has some mild scuffs and marks on the boards and page edges, otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.

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[Publisher’s price £45.00]
Weight without packaging: 544g.

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Contents:
Copeland, Rhetoric & politics of the literal sense in medieval literary theory — Aquinas, Wyclif, & the Lollards;
Haas, Pope Joan & Patient Griselda as 'Top Girls' — late medieval literature via poetic 'deconstruction';
Brown, Meanings of interpres in Aldhelm & Bede;
Reichl, The literate fallacy — interpreting medieval popular narrative poetry;
Dor, Traduttore Cicerone — the translator as cross-cultural go-between;
Kelly, Interpretation of genres & by genres in the Middle Ages;
Bruni, Interpretation within the Decameron;
Gillespie, Interpreting the ineffable in the Middle English mystics;
Simpson, A critique of Robert Jordan's 'Chaucer & the Shape of Creation';
Fleming, Fidus Interpres, or from Horace to Pandarus [Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde].

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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