Medieval Literature (eBook, PDF)

Criticism and Debates
Redaktion: Crocker, Holly; Smith, D. Vance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates combines classic critical essays alongside new voices and approaches, highlighting the crucial criticism and vibrant debates on medieval literature throughout history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 552
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000941524
• Artikelnr.: 68030608

Autorenporträt

Holly A. Crocker is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She has received fellowships and grants from the German Fulbright Comission, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. D. Vance Smith is Professor of English and Director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton University. He has received fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.K. Fulbright Commission, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith Part 1: Form and History 1. Chronicles and Literary Form
Sylvia Federico 2. The Ballad and the Middle Ages
Richard Firth Green 3. Lyrics and Short Poems
Bruce Holsinger 4. Christianity and Middle English Romance
Corinne Saunders Part 2: Belief and Thought 5. Christians and Jews
Love and Hate
Anthony Bale 6. Did the Middle Ages Believe in Their Miracles? Steven Justice 7. Envy and Ethics: "Plesaunce Leefful" in the Parson's Tale
Jessica Rosenfeld 8. When is a Bosom Not a Bosom? Problems with 'Erotic Mysticism
Sarah Salih Part 3: Gender and Sexuality 9. Conduct Becoming: Gender and the Making of an Ethical Subject in The Book of the Knight of the Tower
Glenn Burger 10. Purity and Sexuality
Anke Bernau 11. The Matter of Feminine Virtue in Pearl
Holly A. Crocker 12. Whatever You Do Is a Delight to Me!: Masculinity
Masochism
and Queer Play in Representations of Male Martyrdom
Robert Mills 13. This Living Hand': Thirteenth-Century Female Literacy
Materialist Immanence
and the Reader of the Ancrene Wisse
Elizabeth Robertson Part 4: Memory and Matter 14. Crafting Memory
Lisa H. Cooper 15. Antisemitism and the Purposes of Historicism: Chaucer's Prioress's Tale
Hannah Johnson 16. Haunted Hoccleve? The Regiment of Princes
the Troilean Intertext
and Conversations with the Dead
Nicholas Perkins 17. Irregular Histories: Forgetting Ourselves
D. Vance Smith Part 5: Nation and Language 18. English
French and Anglo-French: Language and Nation in the Fabliau
Ardis Butterfield 19. Between the Old and the Middle of English
Christopher Cannon 20. The Medieval Mediterranean
Christine Chism 21. Machomete' and Mandeville's Travels
Frank Grady 22. Discipline and Romance
Patricia Clare Ingham Part 6: Time and Place 23. Movie Medievalism: Five (or Six) Ways of Viewing an Anachronism
Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl 24. The Romance of Medievalism
Laurie Finke and Martin B. Shichtman 25. Topography as Historiography: Petrarch
Chaucer
and the Making of Medieval Rome
Jennifer Summit 26. Imperium
Commerce
and National Crusade: The Romance of Malory's Morte
David Wallace Part 7: Science and Embodiment 27. Knights in Disguise: Identity and Incognito in Fourteenth-Century Chivalry
Susan Crane 28. Dining Tables
Conduct Texts
and Human Ecology
J. Allan Mitchell 29. The Jew
the Host and the Virgin Martyr: Fantasies of the Sentient Body
Ruth Evans 30. Materiality and the Hylomorphic Imagination
Kellie Robertson Part 8: Period and Politics 31. Henryson's Doubt: Neighbors and Negation in The Testament of Cresseid
George Edmondson 32. Imagining Polities: Social Possibility and Conflict
Marion Turner 33. Lords
Servants
and the Ethics of Medieval English Literature
Emily Steiner 34. Dullness and the Fifteenth Century
David Lawton Part 9: Desire and Performance 35. Absent Presences: The Theatre of Resurrection in York
Sarah Beckwith 36. Sacrificial Desire in Chaucer's Knight's Tale
Aranye Fradenburg 37. Willing
Nicollette Zeeman 38. Women in Uniform: Dress and Performance in Medieval Court Culture
Stephanie Trigg Suggestions for Further Reading Bibliography Index