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Leonard Diepveen. Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception, Jayme Stayer Dec 2019

Leonard Diepveen. Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception, Jayme Stayer

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Diepeveen has spent a considerable part of his career chasing after the tricky concept of intent, how authors or works signal it, and how interpretive communities respond to it. With his most recent book, he has brought a systematician’s rigour to the question of how modernism addresses, offends, or accounts for its various audiences. One of the most engaging elements of Modernist Fraud is how Diepeveen rescues authorial intention from the New Critical and Barthesian dustbins, revealing its centrality in the evaluation and understanding of art, in spite of its unpindownable nature. The paradox of intent is that its ‘evidentiary …


How To Play A Poem By Don Bialostosky, Jayme Stayer Dec 2019

How To Play A Poem By Don Bialostosky, Jayme Stayer

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Don Bialostosky has long been admired as a writer of dense texts aimed at theory-minded academics and addressing Bakhtin and rhetoric. With How to Play a Poem, Bialostosky plays to a different audience, positioning himself as “something of a popular entertainer,” to use T. S. Eliot’s improbable self-description in the wake of The Waste Land. Aimed not at theoreticians but average teachers of poetry, Bialostosky’s text attempts to make Bakhtin accessible for the college and high school classroom. For my own audience here, I offer a conflict-of-interest disclosure: Bialostosky directed my dissertation over twenty-five years ago, but there is little …


Thorlac Turville-Petre. 2018. Description And Narrative In Middle English Alliterative Poetry. Exeter Medieval Texts And Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Viii + 222 Pp., £ 85.00., Ian Cornelius Sep 2019

Thorlac Turville-Petre. 2018. Description And Narrative In Middle English Alliterative Poetry. Exeter Medieval Texts And Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, Viii + 222 Pp., £ 85.00., Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Review Of The Penn Commentary On 'Piers Plowman', Vol. 4: C Passūs 15--19; B Passūs 13--17, By Traugott Lawler, Ian Cornelius Sep 2019

Review Of The Penn Commentary On 'Piers Plowman', Vol. 4: C Passūs 15--19; B Passūs 13--17, By Traugott Lawler, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Evincing Criticism And Collegiality In Scholarly Reviews, Joseph Janangelo Feb 2019

Evincing Criticism And Collegiality In Scholarly Reviews, Joseph Janangelo

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Ralph Hanna, The Penn Commentary On "Piers Plowman", Volume 2: C Passūs 5-9; B Passūs 5-7; A Passūs 5-8, Ian Cornelius Jan 2019

Ralph Hanna, The Penn Commentary On "Piers Plowman", Volume 2: C Passūs 5-9; B Passūs 5-7; A Passūs 5-8, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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The Present, The Past And The Material Object, Paul Eggert Jan 2019

The Present, The Past And The Material Object, Paul Eggert

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Before Thomas Hardy rose to fame as the author of Tess of the D’Urbervilles and then later as a poet, he had pursued a professional career as an architect and, for a time, as a restorer of medieval church buildings. When he could afford to do so he gave up his professional life for writing, but an abiding attitude toward the past and its material manifestations links the two phases of his life. In his literary works he frequently returned to the possibility of recovering the past, to the conditions of that recovery and thus to the nature of its …


Frances Babbage, Adaptation In Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature, Verna Foster Jan 2019

Frances Babbage, Adaptation In Contemporary Theatre: Performing Literature, Verna Foster

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

The 15th in a series drawn from scholarship presented at the annual Comparative Drama Conference at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, this collection provides insights into texts and practices currently at the forefront of theatrical discussion. The volume includes various essays on the intersections of script and performance, and features an exclusive interview with keynote speaker, playwright Simon Stephens.


How Lawrence Launched His Career In London, Joyce Wexler Jan 2019

How Lawrence Launched His Career In London, Joyce Wexler

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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The Charles Harpur Critical Archive: A History And Technical Report, Paul Eggert, Desmond A. Schmidt Jan 2019

The Charles Harpur Critical Archive: A History And Technical Report, Paul Eggert, Desmond A. Schmidt

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

This is a history of and a technical report on the Charles Harpur Critical Archive (CHCA), in preparation since 2009. Harpur was a predominantly newspaper poet in colonial New South Wales from the 1830s to the 1860s. Approximately 2700 versions of his 700 poems in newspaper and manuscript form have been recovered. In order to manage the complexity of his often heavily revised manuscripts traditional encoding in XML–TEI, with its known difficulties in handling overlapping structures and complex revisions, was rejected. Instead, the transcriptions were split into simplified versions and layers of revision. Markup describing textual formats was stored externally …


Disability, Decoloniality, And Other-Than-Humanist Ethics In Anzaldúan Thought, Suzanne Bost Jan 2019

Disability, Decoloniality, And Other-Than-Humanist Ethics In Anzaldúan Thought, Suzanne Bost

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Gloria Anzaldúa’s writing has been read as decolonial based on her resistance to dominant national, racial, and cultural formations. This essay turns to unpublished documents from the Gloria Anzaldúa archive that are decolonial at a more fundamental level. In autobiographical writings about her own experiences with disability, as well as doodles and figure drawings, the alternate forms of human life that Anzaldúa depicts defy the logics of identification and differentiation that underlie colonial hierarchies. Refusing to fix bodies with labels, Anzaldúa accepted mystical encounters and inter-species minglings without judgment. She experienced her own disabling conditions (including a severe hormone imbalance …


How Lawrence Launched His Career In London, Joyce Wexler Jan 2019

How Lawrence Launched His Career In London, Joyce Wexler

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Irrational Bodies, Emerging Beings: Disability And Decoloniality In Anzaldúan Thought, Suzanne Bost Jan 2019

Irrational Bodies, Emerging Beings: Disability And Decoloniality In Anzaldúan Thought, Suzanne Bost

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Gloria Anzaldúa’s writing has been read as decolonial based on her resistance to dominant national, racial, and cultural formations. This essay turns to unpublished documents from the Gloria Anzaldúa archive that are decolonial at a more fundamental level. In autobiographical writings about her own experiences with disability, as well as doodles and figure drawings, the alternate forms of human life that Anzaldúa depicts defy the logics of identification and differentiation that underlie colonial hierarchies. Refusing to fix bodies with labels, Anzaldúa accepted mystical encounters and inter-species minglings without judgment. She experienced her own disabling conditions (including a severe hormone imbalance …


Review Of Piers Plowman And The Books Of Nature By Rebecca Davis, Ian Cornelius Jan 2019

Review Of Piers Plowman And The Books Of Nature By Rebecca Davis, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.


Susan E. Deskis, Alliterative Proverbs In Medieval England: Language Choice And Literary Meaning, Ian Cornelius Jan 2019

Susan E. Deskis, Alliterative Proverbs In Medieval England: Language Choice And Literary Meaning, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.