Medievalism and the Modernist Temper - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 080185086X ISBN 13: 9780801850868

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1996

Riassunto

"While modernists are currently so mired in the question of who did what to whom during World War II that they have lost a sense of intellectual urgency, the study of medieval literature and culture has never been more alive or at a more interestingly innovative stage." -- from the Introduction Medievalism and the Modernist Temper brings major and outstanding younger medievalists into confrontation with the notion of medievalism itself in order to chart the directions the field has taken in the past and may take in the future. The collection not only explores modern conceptions of cultural patterns in the Middle Ages but also makes a significant contribution to the wider field of sociology of knowledge in the humanities. In its largest sense, it is a study of the institution of modern scholarship, using medieval literature as a focus. Contributors are R. Howard Bloch, Alain Boureau, E. Jane Burns, Michael Camille, Alain Corbellari, John M. Ganim, John M. Graham, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Suzanne Fleischman, David Hult, Carl Landauer, Seth Lerer, Stephen G. Nichols, Per Nykrog, and Jeffrey M. Peck. "This highly original, polemical and paradigm-shifting book challenges academics to look more closely at the ideological foundations of the very disciplines we practice. Perhaps its most extraordinary contribution to literary studies as a whole (and it emerges with luminous clarity from the editors' Introduction) is to offer a new, historicized means of reviving what was once known as 'source studies.'" -- Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Recensione:

"A highly welcome addition to understanding the meandering path of medevial studies becasue it sheds light on the particular ideological, regional, nationalistic, religious, or personal histories of the 'charter members' of that discipline." -- Richard J. Utz, Arthuriana

"This collection of essays recasts most of the established 'facts' of the last century of medival studies, by so doing it not only provides postmodernist conceptions of medevial cultural patterns but also contributes to the sociology of knowledge in the humanities. This volume can serve as a fine introduction to current trends in medieval studies and as a critical survey of the last century of scholarship." -- The Reader's Review

Recensione:

"Perhaps its most extraordinary contribution to literary studies as a whole (and it emerges with luminous clarity from the editors' Introduction) is to offer a new, historicized means of reviving what was once known as 'source studies.'." -- Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080185086X
• ISBN 13: 9780801850868
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 496
• Redattore: Bloch R. Howard, Nichols Stephen G.