Form and Power in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (eBook, PDF)

A Book for James Simpson
Redaktion: Donoghue, Daniel G.; Watson, Nicholas; Sobecki, Sebastian

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Produktbeschreibung

New and exciting scholarship on medieval and early modern English culture in all its diversity.

This book honours James Simpson, an enormously influential figure in English literary studies. Known for championing once-neglected writers such as Gower, Hoccleve, and Lydgate, Simpson has also pioneered the field of Trans-Reformation studies, dismantling the barrier between the medieval and early modern periods. He has written powerfully about the history of freedoms, the relationship between literary and intellectual history, and about the category of the literary itself in all its urgency.

Inspired by Simpson's interventions, the essays collected here deal with texts and topics from the eighth to the seventeenth centuries. Langland's Piers Plowman and Chaucer's Physician's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde rub shoulders with Old English riddles, Saint Erkenwald, The Digby Lyrics, Lydgate's Dietary, and Lodge's Robert the Devil. Revisionist studies of two much-debated genres - allegory and romance - join forces with chapters on neglected physical features of early books, line-fillers and catchwords, as well as studies of iconoclasm and the histories of enemy love. The volume begins with a piece by the honorand himself, on recognition in literary texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805432340
• Artikelnr.: 69751339

Autorenporträt

Edited by Daniel G. Donoghue, Sebastian Sobecki and Nicholas Watson

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Contributors and Editors Acknowledgments List of
Abbreviations Simpson: An Interim Report - Daniel Donoghue, Sebastian
Sobecki, and Nicholas Watson Part I: The Hermeneutics of Recognition 1. The
Shock of the Old: Recognition in the Humanities; The 2022 Morton W.
Bloomfield Memorial Lecture - James Simpson 2. "Stuffed with Divine Words":
Undigested Texts in Early Medieval England - Erica Weaver 3. The
"Physician's Tale" and Chaucer's Art of Prosopopoeia - Julie Orlemanski 4.
"Troilus can afford to fall in love ... with whomsoever he will": Free Will
and Recognition in Troilus and Criseyde - Laura Ashe Part II: Genre and
Figure 5. Only Rarely Obscure and Not a Genre: Medieval Allegorical
Narrative - Nicolette Zeeman 6. "Thynke nat the contrary": Field Notes in
the Ecology of Medieval Romance - Nicholas Perkins 7. Filling in the Lines:
Text, Image, and Late Medieval Literary Forms - Jessica Brantley 8.
Catching at Words: The Literal, the Metaphorical, and the Obvious - Chris
Barrett Part III: Culture and Institutions 9. Petition, Justice, and Peace
in Piers Plowman - Yun Ni 10. In Place of the Past: Saint Erkenwald's
Versions of Conversion - Aparna Chaudhuri 11. Proverb and Satirical Time:
The Digby Poems and Their Fifteenth Century - Spencer Strub 12. Common
Style and the Bourgeois Ethos in John Lydgate's Dietary - Taylor Cowdery
Part IV: Reformations 13. Rewriting Robert the Devil: Thomas Lodge and
Medieval Romance - Cathy Shrank 14. Iconoclasm and the Epigraphic Image -
Jessica Berenbeim 15. The Letter Kills but the Spirit Gives Life (2
Corinthians 3:6): Or, What Happened to Enemy Love? - David Aers 16. James
Simpson's Freedoms: An Appreciation - Jason Crawford James Simpson's
Publications from 1984 to 2023 Bibliography A Note on the Bloomfield
Conferences General Index