Medieval History
Valerie B. Johnson recently reviewed Kathy Cawsey. Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences (2011):
Kathy Cawsey's 2011 monograph, Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences, is an excellent reference for graduate students struggling to synthesize a century of scholarship on Chaucer and his (many) audiences; indeed, Cawsey makes this explicit in her ?Preface.? As she observes, though there are many excellent guides to Chaucerian scholarship, ?most of these books are historical summaries, and do not provide explanations for whycompletely contradictory ways of reading Chaucer arose over the course of the twentieth century? (ix). Appropriately, then, Cawsey herself has considered her own audiences at length, and identifies plural categories of ideal readers: within the field of medieval studies, she sees the book as useful for advanced undergraduates and early graduate students, and perhaps mature scholars as well; outside of medieval circles, she sees her work as participating in a larger conversation of authorship studies and the history of literary criticism, and thus providing non-medievalists a perspective on how, and why, general trends in literary study are adapted to work with medieval texts. Cawsey is not seeking to make an argument about Chaucer...
Read the full review HERE.
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Medieval History
Valerie Johnson reviews Cawsey, Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism
Kathy Cawsey's 2011 monograph, Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism: Reading Audiences, is an excellent reference for graduate students struggling to synthesize a century of scholarship on Chaucer and his (many) audiences; indeed, Cawsey makes this explicit in her ?Preface.? As she observes, though there are many excellent guides to Chaucerian scholarship, ?most of these books are historical summaries, and do not provide explanations for whycompletely contradictory ways of reading Chaucer arose over the course of the twentieth century? (ix). Appropriately, then, Cawsey herself has considered her own audiences at length, and identifies plural categories of ideal readers: within the field of medieval studies, she sees the book as useful for advanced undergraduates and early graduate students, and perhaps mature scholars as well; outside of medieval circles, she sees her work as participating in a larger conversation of authorship studies and the history of literary criticism, and thus providing non-medievalists a perspective on how, and why, general trends in literary study are adapted to work with medieval texts. Cawsey is not seeking to make an argument about Chaucer...
Read the full review HERE.
- The Canterbury Tales Gets Reinvented As A Graphic Novel
In The Canterbury Tales, American illustrator Seymour Chwast reimagines Chaucer?s poetic survey of medieval England. And, true to Chaucer's vision, each character featured in the original gets a chance to tell their highly visual story, from the Cook...
- Smol Reviews Ferré, Dictionnaire Tolkien
Anna Smol recently reviewed: Dictionnaire Tolkien. Ed. Vincent Ferré. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2012. J.R.R. Tolkien?s fiction is read around the world, having been translated into dozens of languages, from Vietnamese and Korean to Slovak and Catalan to...
- Salisbury And Schulman Join Advisory Board Of Medievally Speaking
Eve Salisbury and Jana Schulman, both medievalists at Western Michigan University, have recently joined the advisory board of Medievally Speaking, the online review arm of Studies in Medievalism, the leading publication investigating the ongoing reception...
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Richard Utz and Peter Schneck are coeditors of Eminent Chaucerians? Early Women Scholars and the History of Reading Chaucer. The essay cluster appeared as a special issue (Supplement 4/2009) of Philologie im Netz, a refereed quarterly specializing in...
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