Frontmatter -- Contents -- Wisdom and "Ri?te Cunde": An Examination of the Satiric Subtlety of The Owl and the Nightingale -- Popular Poetry and Courtly Lyric: The Middle English Pastourelle -- The Dance in Elizabethan and Stuart Drama -- Discourse, ideology and the crisis of authority in post-Reformation England -- "When the Sword came back from sea" - Aspects of Medievalism in Pre-Raphaelite Literature -- The Other Hero of Martin Chuzzlewit: The Function of Tom Pinch in the Narrative and Thematic Structure of the Novel -- The ABC of Historical Criticism -- William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! Five Decades of Critical Reception -- Contemporary Metafiction: The Phenomenon and the Efforts to Explain It -- Backmatterweiterlesen