Vernacular Aesthetics In The Later Middle Ages

Author : Katharine W. Jager
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030183349

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Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages by Katharine W. Jager Pdf

Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.

Author : Sarah Baechle,Carissa M. Harris,Elizaveta Strakhov
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271093055

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Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature by Sarah Baechle,Carissa M. Harris,Elizaveta Strakhov Pdf

Centering on the difficult and important subject of medieval rape culture, this book brings Middle English and Scots texts into conversation with contemporary discourses on sexual assault and the #MeToo movement. The book explores the topic in the late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle and in related literary works, including chivalric romance, devotional lyric, saints’ lives, and the works of major authors such as Margery Kempe and William Dunbar. By engaging issues that are important to feminist activism today—the gray areas of sexual consent, the enduring myth of false rape allegations, and the emancipatory potential of writing about survival—this volume demonstrates how the radical terms of the pastourelle might reshape our own thinking about consent, agency, and survivors’ speech and help uncover cultural scripts for talking about sexual violence today. In addition to embodying the possibilities of medievalist feminist criticism after #MeToo, Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature includes an edition of sixteen Middle English and Middle Scots pastourelles. The poems are presented in a critical framework specifically tailored to the undergraduate classroom. Along with the editors, the contributors to this volume include Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Suzanne M. Edwards, Mary C. Flannery, Katharine W. Jager, Scott David Miller, Elizabeth Robertson, Courtney E. Rydel, and Amy N. Vines.

Author : Raluca Radulescu,Sif Rikhardsdottir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429588983

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature by Raluca Radulescu,Sif Rikhardsdottir Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from leading academics in the field across linguistic and geographic divides. Extending beyond the traditional scholarly discussions of insularity in relation to Middle English literature and ‘isolationism’, this volume: Oversees a variety of genres and topics, including cultural identity, insular borders, linguistic interactions, literary gateways, Middle English texts and traditions, and modern interpretations such as race, gender studies, ecocriticism, and postcolonialism. Draws on the combined extensive experience of teaching and research in medieval English and comparative literature within and outside of anglophone higher education and looks to the future of this fast-paced area of literary culture. Contains an indispensable section on theoretical approaches to the study of literary texts. This Companion provides the reader with practical insights into the methods and approaches that can be applied to medieval literature and serves as an important reference work for upper-level students and researchers working on English literature.

Author : Jessica Barr
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472131693

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Intimate Reading by Jessica Barr Pdf

Intimate Reading: Textual Encounters in Medieval Women’s Visions and Vitae explores the ways that women mystics sought to make their books into vehicles for the reader’s spiritual transformation. Jessica Barr argues that the cognitive work of reading these texts was meant to stimulate intensely personal responses, and that the very materiality of the book can produce an intimate encounter with God. She thus explores the differences between mystics’ biographies and their self-presentation, analyzing as well the complex rhetorical moves that medieval women writers employ to render their accounts more effective. This new volume is structured around five case studies. Chapters consider the biographies of 13th-century holy women from Liège, the writings of Margery Kempe, Gertrude of Helfta, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Julian of Norwich. At the heart of Intimate Reading is the question of how reading works—what it means to enter imaginatively and intellectually into the words of another. The volume showcases the complexity of medieval understandings of the work of reading, deepening our perception of the written word’s capacity to signify something that lies even beyond rational comprehension.

Author : C. Barrett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110808223

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Medieval Aesthetics by C. Barrett Pdf

This three volume set is a comprehensive account of the development of European aesthetics from the time of the ancient Greeks to the 1700s. This second volume focuses on eastern and western aesthetics in the Middle Ages.

Author : Eleanor Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226527451

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Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages by Eleanor Johnson Pdf

Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.

Author : Ann Buckley,Lisa Colton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108493222

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Music and Liturgy in Medieval Britain and Ireland by Ann Buckley,Lisa Colton Pdf

Reveals the rich liturgical ecology of medieval Britain and Ireland and the religious and lay communities who shaped it.

Author : Taylor Cowdery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009223744

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Matter and Making in Early English Poetry by Taylor Cowdery Pdf

This revisionist literary history of early court poetry illuminates late-medieval and early modern theories of literary production.

Author : Curtis Runstedler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031266065

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Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature by Curtis Runstedler Pdf

This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.

Author : Tekla Bude
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812298321

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Sonic Bodies by Tekla Bude Pdf

Tekla Bude starts from a simple premise--that music requires a body to perform it--to rethink the relationship between music, matter, and the body in the late medieval period. Sonic Bodies argues that writers thought of "music" and "the body" as mutually dependent and historically determined processes that called each other into being.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004517035

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Female-Voice Song and Women’s Musical Agency in the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

This collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.

Author : Tiffany Beechy
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268205140

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Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain by Tiffany Beechy Pdf

This rich study takes Insular art on its own terms, revealing a distinctive and unorthodox theology that will inevitably change how scholars view the long arc of English piety and the English literary tradition. Drawing on a wide range of critical methodologies, Aesthetics and the Incarnation in Early Medieval Britain treats this era as a “contact zone” of cultural clash and exchange, where Christianity encountered a rich amalgam of practices and attitudes, particularly regarding the sensible realm. Tiffany Beechy illustrates how local cultures, including the Irish learned tradition, received the “Word that was made flesh,” the central figure of Christian doctrine, in distinctive ways: the Word, for example, was verbal, related to words and signs, and was not at all ineffable. Likewise, the Word was often poetic—an enigma—and its powerful presence was not only hinted at (as St. Augustine would have it) but manifest in the mouth or on the page. Beechy examines how these Insular traditions received and expressed a distinctly iterable Incarnation. Often disavowed and condemned by orthodox authorities, this was in large part an implicit theology, expressed or embodied in form (such as art, compilation, or metaphor) rather than in treatises. Beechy demonstrates how these forms drew on various authorities especially important to Britain—Bede, Gregory the Great, and Isidore most prominent among them. Beechy’s study provides a prehistory in the English literary tradition for the better-known experimental poetics of Middle English devotion. The book is unusual in the diversity of its primary material, which includes visual art, including the Book of Kells; obscure and often cursorily treated texts such as Adamnán’s De locis sanctis (“On the holy lands”); and the difficult esoterica of the wisdom tradition.

Author : Edgar de Bruyne
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033626479

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The Esthetics of the Middle Ages by Edgar de Bruyne Pdf

Author : A. S. Lazikani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030599249

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Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100–1250 by A. S. Lazikani Pdf

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in ‘globalization’ in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani argues for the necessity of placing medieval English devotional texts in a more global context and seeks to modify influential narratives on the ‘history of emotions’ to enable this more wide-ranging critical outlook. Across eight chapters, the book examines the dialogic encounters generated by comparative readings of Muhyddin Ibn ‘Arabi (1165-1240), ‘Umar Ibn al-Fārid (1181-1235), Abu al-Hasan al-Shushtarī (d. 1269), Ancrene Wisse (c. 1225), and the Wooing Group (c. 1225). Investigating the two-fold ‘paradigms of love’ in the figure of Jesus and in the image of the heart, the (dis)embodied language of affect, and the affective semiotics of absence and secrecy, Lazikani demonstrates an interconnection between the religious traditions of early Christianity and Islam.

Author : Sebastian Coxon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351560825

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Laughter and Narrative in the Later Middle Ages by Sebastian Coxon Pdf

In contrast to the vernacular literary traditions of France, Italy and England, comic tales in verse flourished in late medieval Germany, providing bawdy entertainment for larger audiences of public recitals as well as for smaller numbers of individual readers. In a sustained close analysis Sebastian Coxon explores both the narrative design and fundamental thematic preoccupations of these short texts. A distinctively performative tradition of pre-modern narrative literature emerges which invited its recipients to think, learn and above all to laugh in a number of different ways.