Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature: Middle English (Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature) PDF
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OXFORD TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE This page intentionally left blank OXFORD TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE Middle English Edited by PAUL STROHM 1 1 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork OxfordUniversityPress2007 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2007 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperbyPrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN978–0–19–928766–6 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 CONTENTS ListofIllustrations vii NotesonContributors ix 1 PAULSTROHM Introduction 1 Part I CONDITIONS AND CONTEXTS 2 CAROLSYMES ManuscriptMatrix,ModernCanon 7 3 ROBERTM.STEIN Multilingualism 23 4 CHRISTOPHERBASWELL MultilingualismonthePage 38 5 MICHELLER.WARREN Translation 51 6 JOYCECOLEMAN Aurality 68 7 ALEXANDRAGILLESPIE Books 86 Part II VANTAGE POINTS 8 CAROLYNDINSHAW Temporalities 107 9 DIANECADY SymbolicEconomies 124 10 EMILYSTEINER Authority 142 11 D.VANCESMITH Institutions 160 12 CHRISTOPHERCANNON Form 177 13 ELIZABETHALLEN Episodes 191 14 MAURANOLAN Beauty 207 15 NICOLETTEZEEMAN ImaginativeTheory 222 vi CONTENTS 16 SARAHMCNAMER Feeling 241 17 MARIONTURNER Conflict 258 Part III TEXTUAL KINDS AND CATEGORIES 18 ALFREDHIATT GenrewithoutSystem 277 19 BRUCEHOLSINGER Liturgy 295 20 JESSICABRANTLEY Vision,Image,Text 315 21 KARENA.WINSTEAD SaintlyExemplarity 335 22 MATTHEWGIANCARLO SpeculativeGenealogies 352 23 NANCYBRADLEYWARREN Incarnational(Auto)biography 369 24 SHEILALINDENBAUM DramaasTextualPractice 386 25 VINCENTGILLESPIE VernacularTheology 401 26 ANDREWCOLE HeresyandHumanism 421 Part IV WRITING AND THE WORLD 27 KELLIEROBERTSON AuthorialWork 441 28 STEPHANIETRIGG LearningtoLive 459 29 SUSANE.PHILLIPS Gossipand(Un)officialWriting 476 30 LISAH.COOPER ThePoeticsofPracticality 491 IndexofMedievalAuthorsandTitles 507 IndexofNames 513 SubjectIndex 519 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figure1 ChaucerprelectsfromtheopeningWof‘Whanthat 70 aprill…’(London,BLLansdowne851,fo.2;by permissionoftheBritishLibrary) Figure2 Theaudiencethatlistenstogethersitstogether.(Paris, 74 BnFfr22545,fo.75v;bypermissionoftheBibliothe`que NationaledeFrance) Figure3 Chaucer’saudienceclustersaroundhim.(Cambridge, 75 CorpusChristiCollege61,fo.1v,bypermissionofthe MasterandFellowsofCorpusChristiCollege, Cambridge) Figure4 CicerolecturingattheSorbonne.(Ghent,Univ.Bibl. 78 10,fo.37v;bypermissionoftheUniversiteits- bibliotheekGent) Figure5 WoodenstatueofStBridgetatVadstena.(HopeAllen’s 119 papers,Oxford,BodleianLibraryMS.ENG.MISCc.484, fo.222.)OnreverseAllennotedthattheexpression, ‘notquiteecstasy’,is‘MK’s‘‘laughingcountenance’’’. Figure6 Fourstagesofspiritualvision.(London,BritishLibrary 324 MSYates-Thompson11[Additional39843),fo.29r;by permissionoftheBritishLibrary) Figure7 BishopWilliamWykeham(seated)andhiscircle, 428 amongwhomareseveralnotedhumanists.Grisaille illustration.(Oxford,NewCollegeMS288,fol.4r.By permissionoftheMasterandFellowsofNewCollege) Figure8 Archershootingattheworld.1408Illustrationof 449 Gower’sVoxClamantis.(London,BLCottonTiberius A.iv.,fo.9v,bypermissionoftheBritishLibrary) This page intentionally left blank NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Elizabeth AllenteachesintheEnglishDepartmentattheUniversityofCalifornia,Irvine. HerbookonFalseFablesandExemplaryTruthinLaterMiddleEnglishLiteraturewasrecently publishedbyPalgraveMacmillan.Sheiscurrentlyinvestigatingnarrativesofsanctuaryin latemedievalEngland. [email protected] ChristopherBaswellteachesmedievalsubjectsattheUniversityofCalifornia,LosAngeles. HisinterestsincludeArthurianliterature,andistheauthorofVirgilinMedievalEngland: FiguringtheAeneidfromtheTwelfthCenturytoChaucer. [email protected] JessicaBrantleyteachesOldandMiddleEnglishliteratureatYaleUniversity.Herbookon ReadingintheWilderness:TheDramaofDevotioninanIllustratedCarthusianMiscellanyis forthcoming with University of Chicago Press. She is currently engaged in a study of the iconographyofChaucer’s‘ComplaintofMars’. [email protected] DianeCadyteachesEnglishatMillsCollege.Shehaspublishedessaysongenderandmoney andonlanguageanddisease,andiscompletingamonographongenderandmedievalfears andfantasiesaboutmoney. [email protected] ChristopherCannonisamemberoftheFacultyofEnglishintheUniversityofCambridge. HismostrecentbookisTheGroundsofEnglishLiterature,publishedbyOxfordUniversity Press,andheiscurrentlywritingaculturalhistoryofMiddleEnglish. [email protected] Andrew Cole teaches in the Department of English at the University of Georgia. He is co-editor of the Yearbook of Langland Studies and his forthcoming book will concern Englandafterheresy,1382–1420. [email protected] LisaH.CooperisamemberoftheDepartmentofEnglishattheUniversityofWisconsin- Madison. She has written onthe grail legend and on Caxton’sDialogues, and is working on a book entitled Crafting Narratives: Artisans, Authors, and the Literary Artifact in Late MedievalEngland. [email protected] Joyce Coleman is a member of the English Department at the University of Oklahoma. Recent articles have concerned Philippa of Lancaster, the frontispiece to a French City of God, and the prologue of Wynnere and Wastoure. Her next book will focus on book iconographyinmanuscriptillumination. [email protected]
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