B. Bryant

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog

Medieval Studies and New Media

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog presents all of the most memorable posts of the medievalist internet phenomenon "Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog," along with essays on the genesis of the blog itself, the role of blogs in medieval scholarship, and the unique pleasures of studying a time period full of plagues, schisms, and assizes. New material explores connections between Chaucer's literary and historical background and the obsessions of contemporary popular culture. "Le Vostre GC" and eminent medievalists Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Robert W. Hanning, and Bonnie Wheeler draw new conclusions on the ways medieval studies are perceived, the connection between the past and the present, and the historical roots of popular culture.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-10506-5
• 2010
• Seitenzahl: 197
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780230105065
• ISBN-10: 0230105068
• Artikelnr.: 29920330

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey "LeVostreGC" Chaucer blogs at houseoffame.blogspot.com and is working on a forthcoming poem collecting the "tales" of a group of pilgrims on the way to Canterbury. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. Robert W. Hanning is Professor Emeritusof English at Columbia University. Bonnie Wheeler is Professor of English at Southern Methodist University where she directs the Medieval Studies Program.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: Medievalism, Blogging, and Popular Culture * Why Ye Sholde Nat Rede this Book - John Gower * Introduction - Bonnie Wheeler * Playing Chaucer - Geoffrey "LeVostreGC" Chaucer * Blogging the Middle Ages - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen * PART II: Medieval Recreations * Chaucerians Do It With Pronounced E's and Other Risible Relics of a Career in the Medieval Trenches - Robert W. Hanning * Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog 2006-2009 - Geoffrey "LeVostreGC" Chaucer et al.

Rezensionen

"There is a tendency to assume that anything that happened in history is not funny. Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog performs the vital service of showing that the Middle Ages can be fun, and, as a side effect, reminding us that people were as capable of laughing in the fourteenth century as we are today . . . maybe more so." - Terry Jones, Director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and author of Chaucer's Knight: The Portrait of a Medieval Mercenary

"While disappointed to discover that I am not the Chaucer blogger, I nonetheless commend this edifying tome." - David Wallace, Judith Rodin Professor, University of Pennsylvania