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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Rethinking the New Medievalism by R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
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. Table Of Contents : - Introduction. The New Philology Comes Of Agechapter 1. New Challenges For The New Medievalismchapter 2. Reflections On The New Philologychapter 3. Virgil'S "Perhaps": Mythopoiesis And Cosmogony In Dante'S Commedia (Remarks On Inf. 34, 106-26)Chapter 4. Dialectic Of The Medieval Coursechapter 5. Religious Horizon And Epic Effect: Considerations On The Iliad, The Chanson De Roland, And The Nibelungenliedchapter 6. The Possibility Of Historical Time In The Cronica Sarracinachapter 7. Good Friday Magic: Petrarch'S Canzoniere And The Transformation Of Medieval Vernacular Poetrychapter 8. The Identity Of A Textchapter 9. Conceiving The Text In The Middle Ageschapter 10. Dante'S Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus And Daedalus In The Commediachapter 11. Ekphrasis In The Knight'S Talechapter 12. Montaigne'S Medieval Nominalism And Meschonnic'S Ethics Of The Subjectchapter 13. The Pelerinage Corpus In The European Middle Ages: Processes Of Retextualization Reflected In The Prologueschapter 14. Narrative Frames Of Augustinian Thought In The Renaissance: The Case Of Rabelaischapter 15. From Romanesque Architecture To Romancelist Of Contributors Index