Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers / / Laurie A. Finke; ed. by Martin B. Shichtman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Finke, Laurie A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Brownlee, Marina Scordilis,; Delany, Sheila,; Finke, Laurie A.,; Hanning, Robert W.,; Jacoff, Rachel,; Knapp, Peggy A.,; Leicester, H. Marshall,; Leupin, Alexandre,; Mackey, Louis H.,; Renoir, Alain,; Shichtman, Martin B.,; Travis, Peter W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Shichtman, Martin B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

This collection brings together twelve original essays by prominent medievalists which address problems posed by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Taken together, the essays call into question the view that contemporary criticism has little to say about medieval literature and that medieval studies should remain isolated from the issues of contemporary criticism.The contributors apply a variety of critical methodologies to explore issues in textuality, intertextuality, and the role of the reader in works of medieval writers as diverse as Chaucer, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Anselm, and Talavera. Incorporating critical approaches such as deconstructionism, Marxism, feminism, new-historicism and reader-response criticism, the essays place these writers and their texts within a wider realm of cultural reference that embraces philosophy, religion, rhetoric, history, politics, and anthropology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors’ Preface -- Introduction: Critical Theory and the Study of the Middle Ages -- PART I. Textuality -- Oure Tonges Differance: Textuality and Deconstruction in 15 Chaucer -- “I Shal Finde It in a Maner Glose”: Versions of Textual 27 Harassment in Medieval Literature -- Truth’s Treasure: Allegory and Meaning in Piers Plowman -- Inter Nocturnas Vigilias: A Proof Postponed -- PART II. Intertextuality -- Gawain in Wace and Layamon: A Case of Metahistorical 103 Evolution -- Absolute Reflexivity: Geoffroi de Vinsauf -- Wandrynge by the Weye: On Alisoun and Augustine -- Models of Literary Influence in the Commedia -- “Mothers to Think Back Through”: Who Are They? The Ambiguous Example of Christine de Pizan -- PART III. The Reader -- Affective Criticism, the Pilgrimage of Reading, and Medieval English Literature -- Hermeneutics of Reading in the Corbacho -- Oral-Formulaic Rhetoric: An Approach to Image and Message in Medieval Poetry -- Contributors -- Index