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30Medieval Grammatical Theory and Chaucer's House of FameSpeculum 60 (4): 850-876. 1985.In the House of Fame, Chaucer takes up the problem of the nature of traditional texts and suggests, with humor and skepticism, that literary discourse is reducible to a form of speech, spoken sounds inscribed in texts as a form of written memory perpetuated by the arbitrary institution of tradition. Lady Fame personifies this institution. Although many critics have considered the House of Fame to be a poem about poetry and the burden of the past, the key assumptions of medieval literary theory u…Read more
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4Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100–c. 1375: The Commentary-Tradition (review)Speculum 66 (2): 451-453. 1991.
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18Interpretation and the semiotics of allegory in Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and AugustineSemiotica 63 (1-2): 33-72. 1987.
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14David Thomson, ed., An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts. (Garland Medieval Texts, 8.) New York and London: Garland, 1984. Pp. xxxii, 287. $45 (review)Speculum 61 (4): 1036-1036. 1986.
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