The post-historical Middle Ages

The post-historical Middle Ages

by Federico, Sylvia Scala, Elizabeth

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This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, ethical, and cultural vantage points and methods, these essays demonstrate that a variety of approaches and theories are "historical" and can change what it means to historicize medieval literature. By defining our post-hist…

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  • Full title :The post-historical Middle Ages / edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico.

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This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, ethical, and cultural vantage points and methods, these essays demonstrate that a variety of approaches and theories are "historical" and can change what it means to historicize medieval literature. By defining our post-historical moment in medieval English literary studies in terms of new possibilities, this collection will have broad appeal to those interested in the English Middle Ages, history, culture, and reading itself--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.
  • Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

Notes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 22 octobre 2010).

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (237 pages) : : illustrations, fichier PDF

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0230621554, 9780230621558
  • oclc:on1132039607
  • LC Classification:PR255
  • Dewey Decimal:820.9/001

Table of Contents

Amorous Dispossessions : Knowledge, Desire, and the Poet's Dead Body / Patricia Clare Ingham -- Time Out of Memory / Jeffrey J. Cohen -- Historicism after Historicism / Maura Nolan -- (Dis)Continuity : The History of Dreaming / Aranye Fradenburg -- Recovering the Middle Ages? / Thomas Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg -- Naked Chaucer / George Edmondson -- Biography After Historicism / Daniel Birkholz -- The Gender of Historicism / Elizabeth Scala -- From Clio to JHMuse♭ : Literacy and the Muse Of Digitalia / R. Allen Shoaf.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Critique historique (Littérature) -- An… England English literature -- History and criti… Historical criticism (Literature) Historical criticism (Literature) -- En… Literary theory Literature -- Philosophy Literature and history Literature and history -- England Literature, Medieval -- History and cri… Literature, Medieval -- Theory, etc Littérature -- Philosophie Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et cri… Littérature et histoire -- Angleterre Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et cr…

Writers

Federico, Sylvia Scala, Elizabeth

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