The Performance of Middle English Culture: Essays on Chaucer and the Drama in Honor of Martin Stevens

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James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, Sylvia Tomasch
Boydell & Brewer, 1998 - 198 sidor
First detailed examination of theatricality in Chaucer and in Middle English literature and culture as a whole.

Theatricality as a cultural process is vitally important in the middle ages; it encompasses not only the thematic importation of dramatic images into the Canterbury Tales, but also the social and ideological `performativities' of the mystery and morality plays, metadramatic investments, and the ludic energies of Chaucerian discourses in general. The twelve essays collected here address for the first time this intersection, using contemporary theoryand historical scholarship to treat a number of important critical problems, including the anthropology of theatrical performance; gender; allegory; Chaucerian metapoetics; intertextual play and jouissance; social mediationand rhetoric; genre; and the institutionality of medieval studies. JAMES J. PAXSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of Florida; LAWRENCE M. CLOPPER is Professor of English at Indiana University; SYLVIA TOMASCHis Associate Professor of English at Hunter College, City University of New York. Contributors: KATHLEEN ASHLEY, MARLENE CLARK, RICHARD DANIELS, ALFRED DAVID, RICHARD K. EMMERSON, JOHN GANIM, WARREN GINSBERG, ROBERT W. HANNING, SHARON KRAUS, SETH LERER, WILLIAM MCLELLAN, PAMELA SHEINGORN, PETER W. TRAVIS

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Cultural Readings
7
Renaissance New Historicism
25
The Shifting Constructions
43
The Chaucerian Critique of Medieval Theatricality
59
Noahs Wifes Flood
97
Textual Pleasure in the Millers Tale
111
Petrarch Chaucer and the Making of the Clerk
125
The Crisis of Mediation in Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde
143
MockExemplum in the Nuns Priests
161
CounterReading Chaucers Clerks
183
Tabula Gratulatoria
197
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