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Prosodic Protocols And Interruptions Of Them In Piers Plowman, Ian Cornelius
Prosodic Protocols And Interruptions Of Them In Piers Plowman, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In premodern societies artificial prosody supplied an encoding protocol for the transmission of sound in writing. Focusing on the fourteenth-century English poem Piers Plowman, this essay examines mid-stream interruption, modification, or blending of prosodic protocols. In most cases the interruption takes the form of a mid-line switch from English verse to Latin prose. In a few cases, the switch is from English verse to Latin verse. These interruptions of protocol are part of the formal artistry and multilingual facility of Piers Plowman, encoding a great range of sound and some silence. They prompt readers to re-evaluate well-justified expectations …
The Word That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Pamela Caughie
The Word That Dare Not Speak Its Name, Pamela Caughie
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay asks, when does our effort to avoid offending students interfere with our ability to teach them? Rehearsing conflicts over language and terminology, over who can speak and what can be said, from my four-decade career as a literature professor, critical theorist, and gender scholar, I confront contemporary efforts to censor certain words, to prohibit certain kinds of inquiry, and to limit who can speak about certain subjects by placing recent incidents in relation to previous debates in academia and the public sphere. The university classroom and scholarly peer-reviewed journals have long served as spaces where established viewpoints can …
It’S Complicated: Some Irregular Line-Ending Morphosyllabic Sequences In Piers Plowman B, Ian Cornelius
It’S Complicated: Some Irregular Line-Ending Morphosyllabic Sequences In Piers Plowman B, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Recent scholarship on the meter of fourteenth-century English alliterative verse demonstrates that lines end with a trochaic constituent. Piers Plowman is a recognized anomaly, yet there is disagreement about the extent of the differences. In this article, I examine long final dips, the vocalic quality of syllables in the final dip, and the placement of word divisions. Throughout, my focus is on the B version of the poem. I make a survey of lines with a word division after the final lift and of lines ending in -ly adverbs, compounds in -man, compounds in -nesse, nouns in -(i)oun …
George Colvile's Translation Of The Consolation Of Philosophy, Ian Cornelius
George Colvile's Translation Of The Consolation Of Philosophy, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Consolatio philosophiae of the Roman statesman and philosopher Boethius (fifth/sixth century) was read and studied intensely in medieval western Europe and repeatedly translated into vernacular languages. Medieval commentaries on this text and translations of it claim attention today as case studies in a history of reading, for they exemplify the practices of medieval literary scholasticism. In an English context, the final flowering of this reading tradition may be placed in the year 1556, when John Cawoode printed a new translation of the Consolatio by a ‘George Coluile, alias Coldewel’. The translator remains unidentified. The translation is a medieval throwback …
Some Corrections To The Notation Of Verse Structure In Two Recent Editions Of Middle English Alliterative Poems, Ian Cornelius
Some Corrections To The Notation Of Verse Structure In Two Recent Editions Of Middle English Alliterative Poems, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In Germanic alliterative verse the fundamental unit of meter and rhythm is the half-line. Editions of older Germanic alliterative poems now usually record this feature in their typographic design: the poetry is lineated and coordinate half-lines are separated with whitespace. For Middle English alliterative poems, the usual presentation has been in undivided long lines, but several recent editions separate half-lines with whitespace or punctuation-marks. The present essay examines the half-line divisions in John Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre’s Piers Plowman B (2014/2018) and Ad Putter and Myra Stokes’s Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2014). Burrow …
Feminist Modernist Dance, Part Ii, Melissa Bradshaw, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
Feminist Modernist Dance, Part Ii, Melissa Bradshaw, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In late July of 1959 Chicago dance writer Ann Barzel went to Cuba. The successful revolution led by Fidel Castro to overthrow the military dictatorship of Cuban president Fulgencio Batista had happened a little over six months earlier, and relations with the United States, while not comfortable, were still imaginable. Barzel came at the invitation of her friends, the ballet dancers Alicia and Fernando Alonso, to act as a member of the selection board for auditions for the Ballet Alicia Alonso. Founded in 1948, Ballet Alicia Alonso was Cuba’s first professional ballet company (it would later become the Ballet Nacional …
Language And Meter, Ian Cornelius
Language And Meter, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
From a visual standpoint as well as a semantic and functional one, Middle English lyrics were often absorbed into their co(n)texts. In what sense, then, is a “Middle English lyric” a thing? I seek in this essay to show what metrical analysis may contribute to that question. Context is not all. If contextual analysis has tended to dissolve the presumed thing-hood of Middle English lyrics, metrical analysis shows that verses are robust enough to sustain that. Metrical structuration sets verse apart from its surround; it defines the verse object as a distinct entity, distinguished by a specifiable compositional craft.
Langland Parrhesiastes, Ian Cornelius
Langland Parrhesiastes, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The ancient Greek word parrhēsia designates speech that is bold, frank, and free, holding nothing back; a parrhēsiastēs is a person who gives voice to such speech. Although the word was little used in Latin literature and had no precise Latin equivalent, the concept was transmitted to medieval western Europe in rhetorical theory and the New Testament. In this essay I propose that the concept of parrhēsia may help to register the irruptive force, pointedness, risks, and complexity of certain acts of saying in Piers Plowman, a fourteenth-century English vision poem. For most of this essay, I focus on a …
Viruses, Vaccines, And The Erotics Of Risk In Latinx Hiv Stories And Covid-19, Dr. Suzanne Bost
Viruses, Vaccines, And The Erotics Of Risk In Latinx Hiv Stories And Covid-19, Dr. Suzanne Bost
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In 2019, I published Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (University of Illinois Press), in which I discuss contagion as a metaphor for embracing our shared materiality with others. Six months later, during the Covid-19 pandemic, neighbors were crossing streets to avoid each other. Social distancing is, counterintuitively, asking us to view separation and seclusion as forms of solidarity. But how can we be solid if we are oriented against each other? Isolation itself has become contagious: sharing repulsion and rejection, measuring six feet of “social” distance from others. These spaces are made up of a variety …
Feminist Modernist Dance, Melissa Bradshaw, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
Feminist Modernist Dance, Melissa Bradshaw, Jessica Ray Herzogenrath
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
This is the first of two special issues of Feminist Modernist Studies dedicated to feminist modernist dance (the second will be Summer, 2022). We have wrestled in our joint editorial work here, as well as in our own work, over the disjunctions embodied in these three terms conjoined. Though feminist scholars have been doing important work in modernist studies for half a century, the term modernism remains mired in gatekeeping canon formations that center white male artists, primarily writers, with few exceptions. The continued need to specify “feminist modernism” signals an exasperating truism that modernism persists in its reliable male-orientation. …
Take This Work Global, Ian Cornelius
Take This Work Global, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
Paul Eggert’s The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies: Scholarly Editing and Book History elaborates a general program for the study of literature centered on the question, “What is the thing read?” Concepts of document, text, and work are parsed with care, generating many valuable insights and clarifications, but there is need for more thinking about the linguistic medium of literature. To textual studies, bibliography, and book history — the trio of foundational disciplines advocated by Eggert — one should add philology, or the study of literary language.
The Text Of The "Abc Of Aristotle" In The ‘Winchester Anthology’, Ian Cornelius
The Text Of The "Abc Of Aristotle" In The ‘Winchester Anthology’, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The Middle English ABC of Aristotle is an alliterative abecedary poem that survives in fifteen manuscript copies dating between the mid-fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The most eccentric copy, bearing the greatest number of unique textual variants, is in London, British Library, Additional 60577, a commonplace book and miscellany of verse and prose known today as the ‘Winchester Anthology’. The Winchester copy of the ABC of Aristotle is distinguished from all others by changes to vocabulary, idiom, and prosody. The result is a unique redaction, illustrating the kind of literary composition that could be expected to grow out of late …
The Intricacies Of Counting To Four In Old English Poetry, Ian Cornelius, Eric Weiskott
The Intricacies Of Counting To Four In Old English Poetry, Ian Cornelius, Eric Weiskott
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
The metrical theory devised by Eduard Sievers and refined by A. J. Bliss forms the basis for most current scholarship on Old English meter. A weakness of the Sievers–Bliss theory is that it occupies a middle ground between two levels of analytic description, distinguished by Roman Jakobson in an influential article as ‘verse instance’ and ‘verse design’. Metrists in the Sievers–Bliss tradition employ a concept of metrical position (a key component of verse design), yet the focus of attention usually remains on the contours of stress of individual verses. Important exceptions are the studies of Thomas Cable and Nicolay Yakovlev. …
Hanna (Ed.), Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings, Ian Cornelius
Hanna (Ed.), Richard Rolle: Unprinted Latin Writings, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Mcmullen/Weaver (Eds.), The Legacy Of Boethius In Medieval England, Ian Cornelius
Mcmullen/Weaver (Eds.), The Legacy Of Boethius In Medieval England, Ian Cornelius
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
The International Life Of A Russian Colonial Document: The Russian-American Company, The Kashaya Pomos, The Bodega Miwoks, And The 1817 Métini Protocol, Jeffrey Glover
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
In September 1817 officials of the Russian colony of Ross drafted a protocol of a meeting held with the Kashaya Pomos, the Bodega Miwoks, and other Native Americans. The protocol described how the Russians had promised gifts and military protection to their Native American allies in exchange for the right to continue occupying Métini, a Kashaya Pomo–controlled territory about eighty-five miles north of San Francisco. Soon, reports of the meeting had made their way up and down the coast and across the Pacific, as Native Americans, Russian imperial ministers, and diplomats from Russia's imperial rivals debated its significance. This essay …
Christopher Bigsby, Twenty-First Century American Playwrights, Verna Foster
Christopher Bigsby, Twenty-First Century American Playwrights, Verna Foster
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Fragmented Spectatorship And Artistic Beholding In The Red Badge Of Courage, John Kerkering
Fragmented Spectatorship And Artistic Beholding In The Red Badge Of Courage, John Kerkering
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Leonard Diepveen. Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception, Jayme Stayer
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
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
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Penn Commentary On 'Piers Plowman', Vol. 4: C Passūs 15--19; B Passūs 13--17, By Traugott Lawler, Ian Cornelius
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
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
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
No abstract provided.
The Present, The Past And The Material Object, Paul Eggert
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
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
How Lawrence Launched His Career In London, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.
The Charles Harpur Critical Archive: A History And Technical Report, Paul Eggert, Desmond A. Schmidt
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
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
How Lawrence Launched His Career In London, Joyce Wexler
English: Faculty Publications and Other Works
No abstract provided.