Speaking two languages : traditional disciplines and contemporary theory in medieval studies

Author(s)

• Frantzen, Allen J.

Bibliographic Information

Speaking two languages : traditional disciplines and contemporary theory in medieval studies

edited by Allen J. Frantzen

（SUNY series in medieval studies）

State University of New York Press, c1991

• : alk. paper
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-288) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is designed for the medievalist interested in contemporary criticism but cautious about its limits. The volume's essays are not designed to offer rereadings of familiar texts, but to address the problems of articulating tradition and contemporary theory. Each contributor interprets critical methods as consciously chosen and spoken "languages," and explores the consequences of combining a traditional and a contemporary method, and hence, speaking two languages. Each essay includes a critical bibliographical note pointing to further reading in the languages it employs.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Preface 1. Prologue: Documents and Monuments: Difference and Inter-disciplinarity in the Study of Medieval Culture Allen J. Frantzen 2. On Reading Eve: Genesis B and the Readers' Desire Gillian R. Overing 3. Beowulf and the Origins of Civilization James W Earl 4. The Plot of Piers Plowman and the Contradictions of Feudalism Britton J. Harwood 5. The Language of Transgression: Body, Flesh, and Word in Mystical Discourse Karma Lochrie 6. Texts That Speak to Readers Who Hear: Old English Poetry and the Languages of Oral Tradition John Miles Foley 7. Working with Patristic Sources: Language and Context in Old English Homilies Clare A. Lees 8. Medieval Textuality and the Archaeology of Textual Culture Martin Irvine 9. Epilogue: De Scientia Interpretandi: Oral Tradition and the Place of Other Theories in the Graduate Curriculum Adam Brooke Davis Notes Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA12478958
• ISBN:
  • 0791405052
  • 0791405060
• LCCN: 90009638
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: xv, 297 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR176
  • DC20 : 829/.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
  • LCSH : Civilization, Medieval -- Historiography
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA11157802