Medievalism and the Modernist Temper

Name: Medievalism and the Modernist Temper
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ISBN: 9780801850875

ISBN-10: 0801850878

ISBN-13: 9780801850875

Edition: 1996

Authors: R. Howard Bloch, Stephen G. Nichols

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"While modernists are currently so mired in the question of who did what to whom during World War II that they have lost a sense of intellectual urgency, the study of medieval literature and culture has never been more alive or at a more interestingly innovative stage." -- from the Introduction Medievalism and the Modernist Temper brings major and outstanding younger medievalists into confrontation with the notion of medievalism itself in order to chart the directions the field has taken in the past and may take in the future. The collection not only explores modern conceptions of cultural patterns in the Middle Ages but also makes a significant contribution to the wider field of sociology…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Introduction




Modernism and the Politics of Medieval Studies




National Identity and the Politics of Publishing the Troubadours




The Science of Imposture and the Professionalization of Medieval Occitan Literary Studies




"In the Beginning Was the Word": Germany and the Origins of German Studies




The Myth of Medieval Romance




"Du bon et du bon marche": The Abbe Migne's Fabulous Industrialization of the Church Fathers




Gaston Paris and the Invention of Courtly Love




Feminism and the Discipline of Old French Studies: Une Bele Disjointure




Joseph Bedier, Philologist and Writer




A Warrior Scholar at the College de France: Joseph Bedier




Making Mimesis: Erich Auerbach and the Institutions of Medieval Studies




Ernst Robert Curtius and the Topos of the Literary Critic




Kantorowicz, or the Middle Ages as Refuge




Philological Iconoclasm: Edition and Image in the Vie de Saint Alexis




Methodologies and Ideologies in Historical Grammar: A Case Study from Old French




A Sad and Weary History: The Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters




Preface to Kinder- und Hausmarchen gesammelt durch die Bruder Grimm(1819)


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