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Overview"In the early 1990s, Stephen Nichols introduced the term ""new medievalism"" to describe an alternative to the traditional philological approach to the study of the romantic texts in the medieval period. While the old approach focused on formal aspects of language, this new approach was historicist and moved beyond a narrow focus on language to examine the broader social and cultural contexts in which literary works were composed and disseminated. Within the field, this transformation of medieval studies was as important as the genetic revolution to the study of biology and has had an enormous influence on the study of medieval literature. Rethinking the New Medievalism offers both a historical account of the movement and its achievements while indicating - in Nichols' innovative spirit - still newer directions for medieval studies. The essays deal with questions of authorship, theology, and material philology and are written by members of a wide philological and critical circle that Nichols nourished for forty years. Daniel Heller-Roazen's essay, for example, demonstrates the conjunction of the old philology and the new. In a close examination of the history of the words used for maritime raiders from Ancient Greece to the present (pirate, plunderer, bandit), Roazen draws a fine line between lawlessness and lawfulness, between judicial action and war, between war and public policy. Other contributors include Jack Abecassis, Marina Brownlee, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, Andreas Kablitz, and Ursula Peters." Full Product DetailsAuthor: R. Howard Bloch (Sterling Professor of French, Chair Humanities Program, Yale University) , Alison Calhoun (Visiting Assistant Professor/ACLS Faculty Fellow, Indiana University) , Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet (Professor of French, Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV and Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV) , Joachim Küpper (Professor of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781421412405ISBN 10: 1421412403 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 25 June 2014 Recommended Age: From 13 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction. The New Philology Comes of Age Chapter 1. New Challenges for the New Medievalism Chapter 2. Reflections on The New Philology Chapter 3. Virgil's ""Perhaps"": Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in Dante's Commedia (Remarks on Inf. 34, 106–26) Chapter 4. Dialectic of the Medieval Course Chapter 5. Religious Horizon and Epic Effect: Considerations on the Iliad, the Chanson de Roland, and the Nibelungenlied Chapter 6. The Possibility of Historical Time in the Crónica Sarracina Chapter 7. Good Friday Magic: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Transformation of Medieval Vernacular Poetry Chapter 8. The Identity of a Text Chapter 9. Conceiving the Text in the Middle Ages Chapter 10. Dante's Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus and Daedalus in the Commedia Chapter 11. Ekphrasis in the Knight's Tale Chapter 12. Montaigne's Medieval Nominalism and Meschonnic's Ethics of the Subject Chapter 13. The Pèlerinage Corpus in the European Middle Ages: Processes of Retextualization Reflected in the Prologues Chapter 14. Narrative Frames of Augustinian Thought in the Renaissance: The Case of Rabelais Chapter 15. From Romanesque Architecture to Romance List of Contributors Index"ReviewsThe present volume in many ways celebrates and continues Nichols's ideas and influence in the past 25 years, but it does much more than that. As Bloch (French and Romance philology, Columbia Univ.) puts it in his introduction, the essays contain many elements belonging to the New Philology-an attention to the material conditions of the medieval work, especially to the givens of manuscript culture, a questioning of authorship and authority, an interrogation of the integrity of medieval texts, recognition of the relation between the verbal and the visual. ... Nichols's discussion of the challenges and opportunities for new philology in the digital age will be required reading in graduate seminars on digital humanities. Choice The essays ranged here by German and American scholars, in homage to Nichols and his cohort of new materialists, new philologists, new medievalists, are strong and ambitious attempts to revisit the twenty-year-old call for methodological reinvention. Common Knowledge The present volume in many ways celebrates and continues Nichols's ideas and influence in the past 25 years, but it does much more than that. As Bloch (French and Romance philology, Columbia Univ.) puts it in his introduction, the essays contain many elements belonging to the New Philology-an attention to the material conditions of the medieval work, especially to the givens of manuscript culture, a questioning of authorship and authority, an interrogation of the integrity of medieval texts, recognition of the relation between the verbal and the visual. ... Nichols's discussion of the challenges and opportunities for new philology in the digital age will be required reading in graduate seminars on digital humanities. Choice Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we03/R. Howard Bloch is chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. He is author of several books, including Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, cowritten with Stephen Nichols, and published by Johns Hopkins. Alison Calhoun is a new faculty fellow and visiting assistant professor of French at Indiana University. Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet is a professor of French literature at the Sorbonne. Joachim Kupper is a professor of philology at Freie Universitat Berlin. Jeanette Patterson is a new faculty fellow of French and Italian at Princeton University. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we03/Countries AvailableAll regions |
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