ISBN: 9780198184768

New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies… More...

New Medieval Literatures is a new annual of work on medieval textual cultures. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies. The title announces an interest both in new writing aboutmedieval culture and in new academic writing. As well as featuring challenging new articles, each issue will include an analytical survey by a leading international medievalist of recent work in an emerging or dominant critical discourse, in this volume Louise O. Fradenburg''s study ofpsychoanalytical medievalism. The editors aim to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Volume 2 features in particular work representing European continental traditions as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings. The essays in this volume move from the streets of Paris, London, and English market towns to English monasteries, idealized pastoral spaces, Christian-Jewish-MuslimSpain, Rome, and fourteenth-century Oxford. Subjects discussed include the spectral Jew in the making of Christian history; Peter Damian''s Liber Gomorrhianus and the sexual politics of papal reform; sexuality and the improper allegory of the Romance of the Rose; violence, gender, and states of siegein Christine de Pizan''s Paris; metonymy, montage, and death in Villon''s Testament; maytime in late medieval courts; the ideological context of the Vita Haroldi; John Wyclif and scriptural truth, and bill-casting and political discourse in late medieval England. The volume as a whole coheres aroundthree important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history. Volume 3 will feature the winning essay from the essay prize competition, a major new historiographical essay by David Wallace on Dante in England and medieval-renaissance periodization, and an analytical survey by Sarah Kay on romance literatures and the ''New Philology''. Other contributions willrepresent new approaches to canonical authors, including Aelfric, Caxton, and Christine de Pizan. | New Medieval Literatures by Rita Copeland Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > Literary Criticism > Criticism & Theory P10106, Rita Copeland<

ISBN: 9780198184768

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], 'New Medieval Literatures' is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental … More...

Hardback, [PU: Oxford University Press], 'New Medieval Literatures' is a new annual of work on the textual cultures of medieval Europe and beyond. The focus of Volume 2 is on continental European literatures as well as Anglo-Norman and Anglo-Latin writings. The essays cohere around three important issues of cultural analysis: gender, space, and reading history., Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval<

1998, ISBN: 9780198184768

Volume II, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Clarendon Press], Clarendon Press, 1998