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Volume 54

Criticism of the Works of World Authors from Classical Antiquity through the Fourteenth Century, from the First Appraisals

to Current Evaluations

Lynn M. Zott

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Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Vol. 54
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Acknowledgments

The editors wish to thank the copyright holders of the excerpted criticism included in this volume and the permissions managers of many book and magazine publishing companies for assisting us in securing reproduction rights. We are also grateful to the staffs of the Detroit Public Library, the Library of Congress, the University of Detroit Mercy Library, Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Library Complex, and the University of Michigan Libraries for making their resources available to us. Following is a list of the copyright holders who have granted us permission to reproduce material in this volume of CMLC. Every effort has been made to trace copyright, but if omissions have been made, please let us know.

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Ardizzone, Maria Luisa. From “Guido Cavalcanti,” in The Dante Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Garland Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Routledge, Inc., part of the The Taylor & Francis Group. —Benson, Larry D. From “Literary Convention and Characterization in Sir Gawain,”in Art and Tradition in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Rutgers University Press, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by Rutgers University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Bercovitch, Sacvan. From “Romance and Anti-Romance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in Critical Studies of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” University of Notre Dame Press, 1968. Copyright © 1968 by University of Notre Dame Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Bowra, C. M. From “The Antidote of Comedy,” in Landmarks in Greek Literature. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Weidenfeld and Nicholson. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Clein, Wendy. From “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Its Readers,” in Concepts of Chivalry in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Pilgrim Books, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by Pilgrim Books. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Davenport, W. A. From “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in The Art of the “Gawain”-Poet. The Athlone Press, 1978. Copyright © 1978 by The Athlone Press, an imprint of Continuum. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —de Sanctis, Francesco. From “The Tuscans,” in History of Italian Literature, Volume 1, translated by Joan Redfern. Basic Books, Inc., 1959. Copyright © 1931 and renewed 1959 by Harcourt, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the publisher. —Friedman, Albert B. From “Morgan le Fay in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in “Sir Gawain”: Critical Essays. Indiana University Press, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Indiana University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Goldin, Frederick. From “Guido Cavalcanti,” in German and Italian Lyrics of the Middle Ages: An Anthology and a History, translated by Frederick Goldin. Anchor Books, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Frederick Goldin. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. —Hodgson, Phyllis. From Introduction to “The Cloud of Unknowing” and the “Book of Privy Counselling.” The Early English Text Society, 1958. Copyright © 1958 by The Early English Text Society. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Johnston, William. From Introduction to “The Cloud of Unknowing” and the “Book of Privy Counselling.” Image Books, 1973. Copyright © 1973 by William Johnston. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. —Johnston, William. From “The Problem of Unknowing,” “The Cloud of Forgetting,” and “The Cloud of Unknowing,” in The Mysticism of “The Cloud of Unknowing.” Fordham University Press, 2000. © 1967 by Desclee Co., Inc. Reproduced by permission of Fordham University Press. —Lenz, Joseph M. From “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in The Promised End: Romance Closure in the “Gawain”-Poet, Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare. Peter Lang, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Peter Lang. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Lesky, Albin. From “Political Comedy,” in A History of Greek Literature. Methuen & Co Ltd., 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Methuen & Co Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., and Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd. —Lindley, Arthur. From “Ther He Watz Dispoyled, with Spechez of Myerthe’: Carnival and the Undoing of Sir Gawain,” in Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse: Studies in Carnivalesque Subversion. University of Delaware Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of Delaware Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Morgan, Gerald. From “The Definition of Gawain’s Sinfulness,” and “The Judgment of Gawain’s Conduct,” in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and the Idea of Righteousness. Irish Academic Press, 1991. Copyright © 1991 by Irish Academic Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Nicholls, Jonathan. From “The Testing of Courtesy at Camelot and Hautdesert in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in The Matter of Courtesy: Medieval Courtesy Books and the Gawain-Poet. D.S. Brewer, 1985. Copyright © 1985 by D.S. Brewer. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission.—Peers, E. Allison. From “The Cloud of Unknowing,” in Behind that Wall: An Introduction to Some Classics of the Interior Life. SCM Press Ltd., 1947. Copyright © 1947 by SCM Press Ltd. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Pound, Ezra. From “The ‘Introduction’ to Sonnets and Ballate,” in Pound’s Cavalcanti: An Edition of the Translations, Notes, and Essays. Princ

eton University Press, 1983. Copyright © 1932, reprint with notes Copyright © 1983 by Princeton University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Princeton University Press. —Prior, Sandra Pierson. From “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in The “Pearl” Poet Revisited. Twayne Publishers, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by Twayne Publishers. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Progoff, Ira. From “Introduction Commentary,” in The Cloud of Unknowing. The Julian Press, Inc., 1957. Copyright © 1957 by The Julian Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Putter, Ad. From “The Temptation Scenes,” in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and French Arthurian Romance. Oxford University Press, 1995. Copyright © Ad Putter 1995. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. —Rooney, Anne. From “The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” in A Companion to the “Gawain”-Poet. D. S. Brewer, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by D. S. Brewer. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Rosen, Ralph M. From “Cratinus,” in Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition. Scholars Press, 1988. Copyright © 1988 by Scholars Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the American Philological Association and the author. —Sadowski, Piotr. From “The Greenness of the Green Knight” and “The Head and the Loss Thereof: Gawain’s Final Adoubment,” in The Knight on His Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” University of Delaware Press, 1996. Copyright © 1996 by University of Delaware Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Shaw, J. E. From “Commentary,” and “The Dolce Stil Nuovo,” in Guido Cavalcanti’s Theory of Love: The Canzone d’Amore and Other Related Problems. University of Toronto Press, 1949. Copyright © 1949 by University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Sidwell, Keith. From “Poetic Rivalry and the Caricature of Comic Poets: Cratinus’s Pytine and Aristophanes’s Wasps,” in Stage Directions: Essays in Ancient Drama in Honour of E.W. Handley. Institute of Classical Studies, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Institute of Classical Studies. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. —Spearing, A. C. From “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,”in The “Gawain”Poet. Cambridge University Press, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press. —Turner, Denys. From “The Cloud of Unknowing and the Critique of Interiority,” in The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press. —Vickers, Michael. From “Posthumous Parody in Cratinus’s Dionysalexandros,” in Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes’s Early Plays. University of Texas Press, 1997. Copyright © 1997 by University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of the University of Texas Press. —Wilkins, Ernest Hatch. From “Poetry of the Latter Half of the Thirteenth Century,” in A History of Italian Literature, pp. 29-31. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1954. Copyright © 1954, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, renewed © 1982 by Robert H. Wilkins. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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