Author: Paul ZumthorPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Speaking of the Middle Ages
Author: Paul ZumthorPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Speaking of the Middle Ages
Author: Paul ZumthorPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Medieval Author in Medieval French Literature
Author: V. GreenePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403983453
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Thirty-five years ago Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the Author. For medievalists no death has been more timely. The essays in this volume create a prism through which to understand medieval authorship as a process and the medieval author as an agency in the making.
Thinking of the Middle Ages
Author: Benjamin A. SaltzmanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478964
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This book examines how mid-twentieth-century intellectuals' engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history.
Medieval Texts in Context
Author: Graham D. CaiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134238452
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
This collection of essays by leading experts in manuscript studies sheds new light on ways to approach medieval texts in their manuscript context. Each contribution provides groundbreaking insight into the field of medieval textual culture, demonstrating the various interconnections between medieval material and literary traditions. The contributors’ work aids reconstruction of the period’s writing practices, as contextual factors surrounding the texts provide clues to the ‘manuscript experience’. Topics such as scribal practice and textual providence, glosses, rubrics, page lay-out, and even page ruling, are addressed in a manner illustrative and suggestive of textual practice of the time, while the volume further considers the interface between the manuscript and early textual communities. Looking at medieval inventories of books no longer extant, and addressing questions such as ownership, reading practices and textual production, Medieval Texts in Context addresses the fundamental interpretative issue of how scribe-editors worked with an eye to their intended audience. An understanding of the world inhabited by the scribal community is made use of to illuminate the rationale behind the manufacture of devotional texts. The combination of approaches to the medieval vernacular manuscript presented in this volume is unique, marking a major, innovative contribution to manuscript studies.
Toward a Medieval Poetics
Author: Paul ZumthorPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816618453
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A translation of the 1972 French analysis of the dynamics of textual production in the Middle Ages that marked a major shift in scholarly discourse about medieval literature. Integrating the tools of linguistics and textual criticism, does not come to conclusions, but proposes approaches and methods for investigation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Gender and diffenrence in the Middle Ages
Author: Sharon A. FarmerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender -- in the Middle Ages no less than now -- intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors show that medieval identities emerged through shifting paradigms -- that fluidity, conflict, and contingency characterized not only gender, but also sexuality, social status, and religion. This view emerges through essays that delve into a wide variety of cultures and draw on a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies consider gendered hierarchies in western Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic areas of the medieval world.
Medievalism and the Quest for the Real Middle Ages
Author: Clare A. SimmonsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135782792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Medievalism, the later reception of the Middle Ages, has been used by many writers, not just during the Victorian period but from the Renaissance to the present, as a means of commenting on their own societies and systems of values. Until recently, this self-interest was used to distinguish between Medievalism, a selective, often romanticised, view of the past, and medieval studies, with its quest for an authentic Middle Ages. The essays in this collection suggest that the search for knowledge of a "real" Middle Ages has always been a problematic one, and that the vitality of the vision of Medievalism is demonstrated by its constant adaption to current concerns.
Introduction À la Poésie Orale
Author: Paul ZumthorPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816617258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In his comprehensive treatment, Zumthor (emeritus, U. of Montreal) discusses general issues concerning oral poetry, from primary to mechanized orality (including the setting of text to music); the forms of oral poetry; the epic in the West, Africa, and other parts of the globe; the oral poet's texte; performance in its manifold styles across the world; roles played in oral poetry; and oral ritual actions from archaic times to the present--Homer to Bob Dylan. Translated from the first French edition of 1983. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Pornographic Archaeology
Author: Zrinka StahuljakPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
In Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity. Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and the conceptualization of the Middle Ages. Stahuljak reveals the connections between the medieval military order of the Templars and the 1830 colonization of Algeria, between a fifteenth-century French marshal and the development of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's theory of sadism, between courtly love and the 1884 law on divorce. Although the developing discipline of medieval studies eventually rejected the influence of these medical philologists, the convergence of medievalism and medicine shaped modern capitalist French society and established a vision of the Middle Ages that survives today.