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Philological Quarterly articles from January 1995
This journal covers aspects of medieval European and modern literature and culture. The articles published incorporate physical bibliography, the sociology of knowledge, the history of reading, reception studies and other fields of inquiry.
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Philological Quarterly archives from January 1995
"Ceo fu la summe de l'escrit" (Chevrefoil, line 61) again.
January 1, 1995... There are certain lines of Old French poetry so memorable that they have come to function as emblems for the whole work in which they appear. In the Roland, "Halt sunt li pui e li val tenebrus"(1) is a vertiginous and gloomy evocation of the...
Exploitation and excommunication in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale.'
January 1, 1995... What is shocking about the rape which precipitates the events of The Wife of Bath's Tale is the fact that it is apparently not expected to shock. It shocks not simply because it is reported as casually as it happened, its violence muted by an...
'King John' and 'The Troublesome Raigne': sources, structure, sequence. ('The Troublesome Raigne of King John')
January 1, 1995... The debate goes on: is Shakespeare's King John a source or a derivative of the anonymous The Troublesome Raigne of King John (1591)? In 1989 "the `orthodox' opinion that The Troublesome Raigne precedes King John" seemed to one critic "now... so...
Interpolated poetry, the novel and female accomplishment.
January 1, 1995... By and large, men in the eighteenth century were willing to resign to women the novelistic domain, since novels and romances were considered but "trifling productions."(1) Most men, however, still thought themselves preeminent in the more serious...
Transformations in the futurist technological mythopoeia.
January 1, 1995... Because Marinetti programmatically identified his futurist enterprise with the empowering developments of new technology, he is generally considered a paradigmatic modernist, the writer who most vehemently and singlemindedly celebrated radical...
The neo-sensation novel: a contemporary genre in the Victorian tradition.
January 1, 1995... The sensation novel, popularized in the 1860s by Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, and their contemporaries, has recently reappeared in fiction of the kind generally considered "serious literature." Graham Swift's Waterland (1983), Margaret...