"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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"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
R. Howard Bloch is chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. His books include Medieval French Literature and Law, Etymologies and Genealogies, and The Scandal of the Fabliaux. Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beal Professor of French at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include The New Medievalism, edited with Marina S. Brownlee and Kevin Brownlee, which is also available from Johns Hopkins.
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Book Description Hardcover, no dust jacket. Signed by R. Howard Bloch. Boards are gently worn and scuffed. 496 pp. Seller Inventory # 659875
Book Description Condition: very good. Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press , 1996. Hardcover. No dustjacket (as issued). vii,496 pp. 24 cm. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780801850868. Keywords : MEDIEVAL STUDIES, medieval studies. Seller Inventory # 282799
Book Description Broschiert. 496 S. Rücken lichtgehellt, sonst Einband/Schnitt leicht gebrauchs-/regal-/altersspurig___Seiten teils mit ordentlichen Anmerkungen/Makierungen___ ___Bücher aus Nichtraucherhaushalten___Achten Sie auf unsere Bilder___Exakte Versandkosten außerhalb Europas auf Anfrage.___ Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700. Seller Inventory # 14100