Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

Published by Fordham University Press 2012

Medieval Poetics and Social Practice

Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

Edited by: Seeta Chaganti

In the series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292165

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This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University’s English Department. Inspired by Georgetown’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry “traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,” this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ages to assert the indispensability of poetry and poetics in the formation of social structures, actions, and utterances. The contributors offer new readings of canonical late-medieval English poetic texts, such as Langland’s Piers Plowman and Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls, and, of equal importance, explore texts that have hitherto not held a central place in criticism but make important contributions to the literary culture of the period. Introduced by Seeta Chaganti, the collection includes essays by Richard K. Emmerson, J. Patrick Hornbeck, John C. Hirsh, Moira Fitzgibbons, John T. Sebastian, Nicholas R. Havely, Kara Doyle, Anne Middleton, Jo Ann Moran Cruz, and Mark McMorris.

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Introduction Seeta Chaganti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Visual Translation in Fifteenth- Century English Manuscripts Richard K. Emmerson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Barn of Unity or the Dev il’s Church? Salvation and Ecclesiology in Langland and the Wycliffites J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
Christian Poetics and Orthodox Practice: Meaning and Implication in Six Carols by James Ryman, O.F.M. John C. Hirsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Enabled and Disabled “Myndes” in The Prick of Conscience Moira Fitzgibbons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
The Idea of Public Poetry in Lydgatean Religious Verse: Authority and the Common Voice in Devotional Literature John T. Sebastian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Nature’s Yerde and Ward: Authority and Choice in Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls Nick Havely Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Fabulous Women, Fables of Patronage: Metham’s Amoryus and Cleopes and BL MS Additional 10304 Kara Doyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Dowel, the Proverbial, and the Vernacular: Some Versions of Pastoralia Anne Middleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Published Works by Penn R. Szittya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Penn R. Szittya as Scholar and Teacher Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
The Desire to Write Things Down: A Poetic Palimpsest on Certain Remarks by Penn Szittya Mark McMorris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 6 Illustrations, black and white

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Published: March 24, 2022
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