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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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The king's family: securing the kingdom in Asser's Vita Alfredi.
September 22, 2001... Recent work on Asser's Vita Alfredi has pursued two separate but complementary directions. While one set of scholars has returned to the question of authenticity, asking whether the work is a genuine ninth-century text or a forgery, the other...
Ovid's medieval metamorphosis: techniques of persuasion in Chretien de Troyes' Philomena.
September 22, 2001... Medieval readings of Ovid often question our basic assumptions about the relationship between the text and its source. (1) Although reading medieval literature is always complicated by historical and temporal distance, medieval readings of Ovid...
Edited text and medieval artifact: the Auchinleck Bookshop and "Charlemagne and Roland" theories, fifty years later.
September 22, 2001... It's an interesting time to be a medievalist. For several years now, and in academic venues ranging from print to conference to classroom, textual critics of late medieval literature have demonstrated a multiform alienation from the work of...
The ruined abbey in the eighteenth century.
September 22, 2001... In the first decades of the eighteenth century, little was known about Britain's ruined abbeys, but by the 1790s they had become prime tourist destinations, and poems and paintings featuring ruined abbeys became virtually a genre of their own....
Referentiality and modern poetics.
September 22, 2001... Within the complex of causes and conditions behind the decline of academic humanism, some observers have imputed the virtual collapse of literary study in particular to the depredations of poststructuralist literary criticism. Whatever the...
Books received.
September 22, 2001... LANGUAGE
Hansen, Hans Lauge, ed. Changing Philologies: Contributions to the Redefinition of Foreign Language Studies in the Age of Globalisation. Museum Tusculanum Press, U. of Cophenhagen, 2002. Pp. 160. $22.00 paper.
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