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Disseminal Chaucer
Rereading The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Peter W. Travis
Chaucer’s The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is one of the most popular of The Canterbury Tales. It is only 646 lines long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. There have been countless attempts to articulate the “real” meaning of the tale, but it has confounded the critics. Peter Travis contends that part of the fun and part of the frustration of trying to interpret the tale has to do with Chaucer’s use of the tale to demonstrate the resistance of all literature to traditional critical practices. But the world of The Nun’s…
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Augustine and the Cure of Souls
Revising a Classical Ideal
Paul R. Kolbet
Augustine and the Cure of Souls situates Augustine within the ancient philosophical tradition of using words to order emotions. Paul Kolbet uncovers a profound continuity in Augustine’s thought, from his earliest pre-baptismal writings to his final acts as bishop, revealing a man deeply indebted to the Roman past and yet distinctly Christian. Rather than supplanting his classical learning, Augustine’s Christianity reinvigorated precisely those elements of Roman wisdom that he believed were slipping into decadence. In particular, Kolbet addresses the manner in which Augustine not only used classical rhetorical theory to express his theological vision, but also infused it with theological…
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Poetry and Fiction Brochure Online
The University of Notre Dame Press partners with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame to publish the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry winners. In addition, the Press collaborates with the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame to support the work of emerging Latino/a poets with the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
We are pleased to offer the books in these series, as well as other fine poetry and fiction titles, in this brochure: Poetry & Fiction Brochure. Some of the books are offered…
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