Philological Quarterly articles from January 2006

Philological Quarterly archives from January 2006

Hermeneutical perversions: Ralph of Coggeshall's "Witch of Rheims".(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... In his contribution to the Chronicon Anglicanum, the Cistercian chronicler Ralph of Coggeshall interrupts his account of the preparations made for the Fourth Crusade in 1199 to recount six anecdotes of local marvels and recent miracles. The...

Reading the lies of poets: the literal and the allegorical in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse.(Guillaume de Machaut)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Li poete qui jadis furent, Qui eulz et le siecle decurent, Dieu le creatour mescrioient Et les creatures crioient, Se fesoient au pueple acroire Tel fiction qui pas n'ert voire. (1) (Ovide Moralise) Much...

"With many a floryn he the hewes boghte": ekphrasis and symbolic violence in the Knight's Tale.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... From Homer's shield of Achilles to Auden's, ekphrasis, "the verbal representation of visual representation," (1) has featured prominently in Western literature and has inspired an equally rich critical tradition. Throughout this critical...

Henry Constable and the question of Catholic poetics: affective piety and erotic identification in the Spirituall Sonnettes.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... In the preface to her 1960 edition of Henry Constable's poetry, Joan Grundy contextualizes Constable's Spirituall Sonnettes in relation to post-Tridentine aesthetics by observing that he uses "the sonnet form to express religious experience";...

The Tempest and the discontents of humanism.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... "Which play / Were we in?" Ted Hughes, "Setebos" (1) Since the peak of postcolonial approaches to Shakespeare's work in the decade between the 1980s and 1990s, The Tempest has been read as a drama of colonial expansion and a play about the...

Revolt in Utica: reading Cato against Cato.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... 1 One type of speech exchange in particular characterizes Addison's play Cato: it occurs when a character voices an opinion, often of an entirely inoffensive nature, only to be rebuked by a respondent for lapsing from the true mark of...

Haywood's re-appropriation of the amatory heroine in Betsy Thoughtless.(Eliza Haywood)(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... Although Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) continues to hold sway over critical accounts of the English novel, scholars have also argued that the influence of amatory fiction was not, in fact, silenced by Pamela's...

Peacock in love: reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an unknown Victorian novelist.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2006... An editor of literary letters sometimes needs a bit of luck, as well as the persistence of a detective, to track down a "missing person." When I began to collect the letters of Thomas Love Peacock, I naturally wanted to identify the Mrs....

Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism by Alan Sinfield. London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xii + 225. $110 cloth; $33.95 paper. Without succumbing to theoretical cliches or predictable conclusions, in...

Fundamentalism and Literature.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Fundamentalism and Literature. Edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. vi + 220. $65 cloth. This is a book redeemed by several excellent chapters. Redemption is made necessary...