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The Medieval Literature of Western Europe
A review of research, Mainly 1930-1960
Now the Modern Language Association adds the Middle Ages to its list to literary areas covered by a bibliographical survey. Surely no other period has undergone such a radical re-examination in recent times as the medieval period-much of the re-examination having been done in the United States. Critics now see subtlety, power, sophistication, and wholeness in works that were for centuries regarded as naive or grotesque. It is knowledge, often very specialized, accumulated by scholars that enables the modern reader to see medieval literature with this new clarity.
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