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Special Issue: Le Roman de Silence
Edited by F. Regina Psaki
Introduction 3
F. Regina Psaki
The Importance of Being Gender 'Stable': Masculinity and Feminine Empowerment in Le Roman de Silence 7
Lorraine Kochanske Stock
The Third Path: Alternative Sex, Alternative Gender in Le Roman de Silence 35
Elizabeth A. Waters
Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence 47
Kathleen M. Blumreich
The Specular Image of the Gender-Neutral Name: Naming Silence in Le Roman de Silence 63
Erin F. Labbie
The Modern Editor and Medieval 'Misogyny': Text Editing and Le Roman de Silence 78
F. Regina Psaki
The Non-Existent Knight: Adventure in Le Roman de Silence 87
Caroline A. Jewers
Le Roman de Silence: Allegory in Ruin or Womb of Irony? 111
Gloria Thomas Gilmore
Works Cited 124
Round Table 129
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REVIEWS
James P. Carley, Glastonbury Abbey. 137
Andrew Breeze
Brigitte Cazelles, The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chrétien de Troye's 'Conte du Graal.' 138
David C. Fowler
Mary Vandegrift Mills, The Pilgrimage Motif in the Works of the Medieval German Author Hartmann von Aue.
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George E. Harding
Katherine G. Maccornack, Mental Representations Theory in Old French Allegory from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. 142
Judith S. Neaman
Ross G. Arthur and Noel L. Corbett, The Knight of the Two Swords: A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance.
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Angela Jane Weisl
Norris J. Lacy, ed., Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature 145
Richard G. Moll
Derek Brewer, ed., Medieval Comic Tales 146
Donald L. Hoffman
Richard J. Utz, ed., Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm 147
Maureen Fries
Rebecca A. Umland and Samuel J. Umland, The Use of the Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film: From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings 148
Kevin J. Harty