Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Troilus and Criseyde and Troilus and Cressida
Herausgeber: Johnston, Andrew James; Kempf, Elisabeth; West-Pavlov, Russell

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Produktbeschreibung

This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of emotions to shape and critique complex notions of temporality and textuality. The contributors show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love (and other emotions generated and absorbed by love) as a means of approaching the past and the problem of tradition. Because of the long textual history to which they self-consciously look back, fictions of the Troilus and Criseyde/Cresseid/Cressida-tradition cannot avoid reflecting on the tradition from which they derive and the question of literary tradition itself. As they do so, these texts highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the ability of affect to serve as a prism through which tradition itself can be subjected to critical scrutiny. By focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the medieval/ early modern divide this collection participates in the burgeoning exchange between medievalists and early modernists and seeks to generate a truly dialogic encounter between the periods. The collection brings together a number of highly respected scholars from both medieval and early modern studies, many of whom have, in recent years, been instrumental in shaping the terms of the ongoing debate on the nature of the medieval/early modern divide. Thus, this volume continues a discussion which has helped to dismantle the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lund University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780719090226
• ISBN-10: 0719090229
• Artikelnr.: 37601508

Autorenporträt

Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin Russell West-Pavlov is Chair of English - Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tuebingen Elisabeth Kempf is a graduate student at the Freie Universität Berlin

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Andrew James Johnston, Elisabeth Kempf and Russell
West-Pavlov 2. 'No matter from the heut': passion, value and contingency in
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde -
John Drakakis 3. Narrators, selves and the discourse of love in Troilus and
Cressida, or Chaucer, Brecht and Shakespeare - Ute Berns 4. Changing
emotions in Troilus: the crucial year - David Wallace 5. 'Expectation
whirls me round': hope, fear and time in Troilus and Cressida - Kai
Wiegandt 6. ' Like an Olympian wrestling: the pause in Troilus and Cressida
- Richard Wilson 7. 'What's Hecuba to him?' Absent women and the space of
lamentation in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - Hester Lees-Jeffries 8.
Framing emotions in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Elisabeth Kempf 9.
Value feelings - the economy and axiology of the passions in Troilus and
Cressida - Kathrin Bethke 10. The space of desire in Chaucer's and
Shakespeare's Troy - Paul Strohm 11. Arrogant authorial performances: from
Chaucer's Criseyde to Shakespeare's Cressida - Wolfram R. Keller 12. Faces
that talk: Chaucer, nature and female beauty - Stephanie Trigg 13. 'Potent
raisings': performing passion in Chaucer and Shakespeare. - Andreas Mahler
14. 'The formless ruin of oblivion': Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and
literary defacement - James Simpson 15. 'Stewed phrase' and aesthetic
effect in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: received wisdom and its
functions in the reflection, management and performance of passion - Verena
Olejniczak Lobsien Index