Negotiating boundaries in medieval literature and culture : essays on marginality, difference, and reading practices in honor of Thomas Hahn / edited by Valerie B. Johnson, Kara L. McShane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McShane, Kara L., 1985- editor.

Johnson, Valerie B., editor.

Series:

Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romance-language literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

Thomas Hahn's work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies - careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis - to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

Contents:

Chapter 12 Richard Coer de Lyon and Invented Identities

Chapter 13 The Crow's "Cokkow!": Bird Debates and Chaucer's "Manciple's Tale"

Chapter 14 Perceval's Mare

Chapter 15 Gower's Aristotelian Legacy: Reading Responsibility in the Confessio Amantis and the Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod

Chapter 16 "The Prioress's Tale" and Vernacular Devotion

Index

Chapter 6 Anxious Appearance: Illustrating Dissimulation and the Case of the Counterfeit Crank

Chapter 7 Acallam na Senórach and Border-Discourse

Chapter 8 Ecomedieval Revenge and Justice in "Robyn and Gandelyn"

Chapter 9 Outcast Lyrics: Responsive Reading in the Findern Manuscript

Part II: Networks of Connection

Chapter 10 Decoding the Dead: Funerary Inscriptions in St. Erkenwald and The Book of John Mandeville

Chapter 11 Alexander the Great: A Study of Legitimacy, Futility, and the Problem of Getting Home Safely in Gower's Confessio Amantis

Intro

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Reimagining Medieval Studies: The Career of Thomas Hahn

Part I Marginalized Texts, Traditions, and Voices

Chapter 2 Racialized Outcasts: Non-White Bodies and the Construction of the Outlaw-Hero in Modern Robin Hood Film

Chapter 3 The Mongols of Middle English Literature

Chapter 4 Lybeaus Desconus: Illegitimacy and the Spurious Mother

Chapter 5 Thomas Becket and the Pardoner's Problem: Eunuchry and Healing on the Road to Canterbury

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-5015-1421-0

OCLC:

1306053499