Texas Studies in Literature and Language articles from March 2002

Texas Studies in Literature and Language archives from March 2002

Gower's Boat, Richard's Barge, and the true story of the 'Confessio Amantis': text and gloss.
March 22, 2002... At the cusp of a new millennium we still entertain and reassure ourselves with the spectacle of princely patrons engaged in mutually rewarding relationships with genius poets. The Academy Award-winning Shakespeare in Love (1998) depicted not only...

Literal opposition: deconstruction, history, and Lancaster.
March 22, 2002... Given his mistrust of the concept of history, and history's corresponding mistrust of deconstruction, it is striking that Derrida, in defining his hallmark concepts, often employs the language of historical periodization. On differance: "I would...

Pastoral histories: utopia, conquest, and the Wife of Bath's Tale.
March 22, 2002... The idea of the country is the idea of childhood: not only of local memories, or the ideally shared communal memory, but the feel of childhood: of delighted absorption in our own world.... Great confusion is caused if the real...

The pathogenesis of medieval history.
March 22, 2002... I. History's Perverse Rhythm Know what rhythm holds man. --Archilochos "History," insists Paul Ricoeur, "is history only insofar as it has not attained either absolute discourse or absolute singularity, insofar as its...

Performing the Prioress: "conscience" and responsibility in studies of Chaucer's Prioress's Tale.
March 22, 2002... The Prioress's Tale poses a very confusing and uncomfortable set of problems for critics and for readers. The tale depicts Christian violence against the Jews in fictive, literary images that are tied to an actual history of oppression that is...

Vernacular nostalgia and 'The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature'.
March 22, 2002... In a recent report commissioned by the Runnymede Trust, an organization dedicated to promoting racial justice in Britain, author Bhikhu Parekh has critiqued the idea of Englishness as a code word for an insular form of Whiteness. Englishness...

Historicists and their discontents: reading psychoanalytically in medieval studies.
March 22, 2002... This essay takes as its point of departure the recent interest in psychoanalysis in medieval English literary studies. It addresses the vexed relations between psychoanalysis and history, in particular the concerns typically voiced by...