Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hunting for civilization: Marie de France and the sociology of romance
  • Economies of romance: systems of value in Chrétien de Troyes
  • States of union: maiestas, marriage, and the politics of coercion in the Canterbury tales
  • Missing bodies and changed forms: literal metamorphosis in Petrarch's Rime sparse
  • Playing for time: generic disunities and ludic dimensions in Romeo and Juliet
  • Legends of the fall: epic flights and indecorous descents in Paradise lost.