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Chaucer study center9/6/2023 ![]() ![]() 1: Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies, edited by Eileen A. It is also an ephemeral gathering in the present tense. Authors in both volumes, in various ways, lay claim to the act(s) of manifesting, and also anti-manifesting, as a collective endeavor that works on behalf of the future without laying any belligerent claims upon it, where we might craft new spaces for the University-at-large, which is also a University that wanders, that is never just somewhere, dwelling in the partitive - of a particular place - but rather, seeks to be everywhere, always on the move, pandemic, uncontainable, and always to-come, while also being present/between us (manifest). Gathering together a rowdy multiplicity of voices from within medieval and early modern studies, these two volumes seek to extend and intensify a conversation about how to shape premodern studies, and also the humanities, in the years ahead. The essays, manifestos, rants, screeds, pleas, soliloquies, telegrams, broadsides, eulogies, songs, harangues, confessions, laments, and acts of poetic terrorism in these two volumes - which collectively form an academic “rave” - were culled, with some later additions, from roundtable sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in 20, organized by postmedieval: a journal for medieval cultural studies and the BABEL Working Group (“Burn After Reading: Miniature Manifestos for a Post/medieval Studies,” “Fuck This: On Letting Go,” and “Fuck Me: On Never Letting Go”) and George Washington University’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (“The Future We Want: A Collaboration”), respectively. How does this politically-imposed isolation compare to the geographically imposed isolation of a place like Brasil? In other words, how does a socio-politically created “lone” medievalist compare to the experience of a medievalist in a place far removed from the historical context she studies? Te medievalist often faces a politically imposed isolation or alienation, wherein even historians of neighboring countries try to avoid cooperation. Te feeling is only heightened by the political determinism and interference that medievalists experience in places like the Western Balkans, where almost every site and monument of medieval signifcance is reclaimed from different countries. Te feeling of isolation this causes is somewhat like the social isolation and loneliness many people experience in modern cities. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.Being a medievalist in the Western Balkans, a place overcrowded with medieval documents and monuments (and competing modern explanations of such documents and monuments), can lead a scholar to feel trapped in the midst of plenty. Chaucer and His French Contemporaries: Natural Music in the Fourteenth Century. Subjects Literature / Poetry / French Literature / Medieval Literature / Fourteenth-Century / Geoffrey Chaucer / France / At the same time, much is new: an analysis of the meaning of 'natural music' in the light of Deschamps' and Machaut's critical observations, a presentation of Jean de le Mote as a seminal influence in young Chaucer's poetic environment, a demonstration of the parallels and divergences of Froissart's and Chaucer's literary careers, an exposition of Granson's broad borrowings from his English friend, and a fresh look at the puys, the pourgeois poetic societies that flourished in northwest France and London. He demonstrates how the body of Middle French verse can open new avenues into the fundamental nature of Chaucer's poetry.Ĭhaucer and His French Contemporaries synthesizes Winsatt's work on Chaucer's French connections over the past twenty-five years, particularly his studies and editions of Machaut. Wimsatt reveals the range and complexity of Chaucer's literary and personal relations with the important but neglected French poets of the fourteenth century. Bringing to the subject his expertise in both Chaucer and fourteenth-century French literature, James I. In this provocative and highly acclaimed study, a distinguished Chaucerian provides the first comprehensive analysis of the contemporary French influence on Chaucer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991 ![]()
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