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Bloch, R. Howard - Nichols, Stephen G. (eds.), Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, vii + 496 pp.

Resum

"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 of knowledge in the humanities. In its largest sense, it is a study of the institution of modern scholarship, using medieval literature as a focus. Contributors are R. Howard Bloch, Alain Boureau, E. Jane Burns, Michael Camille, Alain Corbellari, John M. Ganim, John M. Graham, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Suzanne Fleischman, David Hult, Carl Landauer, Seth Lerer, Stephen G. Nichols, Per Nykrog, and Jeffrey M. Peck."This highly original, polemical and paradigm-shifting book challenges academics to look more closely at the ideological foundations of the very disciplines we practice. Perhaps its most extraordinary contribution to literary studies as a whole (and it emerges with luminous clarity from the editors' Introduction) is to offer a new, historicized means of reviving what was once known as 'source studies.'" -- Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara

Contents:
* Introduction / Bloch, Ralph Howard · p. 1-22
* Modernism and the politics of medieval studies / Nichols, Stephen G. · p. 25-56
* National identity and the politics of publishing the troubadours / Graham, John M. · p. 57-94
* The science of imposture and the professionalism of medieval occitan literary studies / Kendrick, Laura J. · p. 95-126
* "In the beginning was the word": Germany and the origins of German studies / Peck, Jeffrey M. · p. 127-147
* The myth of medieval romance / Ganim, John M. · p. 148-166
* "Du bon et du bon marché": the Abbé Migne's fabulous industrialization of the church fathers / Bloch, Ralph Howard · p. 169-191
* Gaston Paris and the invention of courtly love / Hult, David F. · p. 192-224
* Feminism and the discipline of old French studies: "Une bele disjointure" / Burns, E. Jane · p. 225-266
* Joseph Bédier, philologist and writer / Corbellari, Alain · p. 269-285
* A warrior scholar at the Collège de France: Joseph Bédier / Nykrog, Per · p. 286-307
* Making mimesis: Erich Auerbach and the institutions of medieval studies / Lerer, Seth · p. 308-333
* Ernst Robert Curtius and the topos of the literary critic / Landauer, Carl · p. 334-354
* Kantorowicz, or the middle ages as refuge / Boureau, Alain · p. 355-367
* Philological iconoclasm: edition and image in the "Vie de Saint Alexis" / Camille, Michael · p. 371-401
* Methodologies and ideologies in historical grammar: a case study from old French / Fleischman, Suzanne · p. 402-438
* A sad and weary history: the "Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters" / Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich · p. 439-471

Matèries

Història de la cultura
Història de la literatura
Bibliografia

Notes

Recensions:
* Nicolette Zeeman, a Medium Aevum (Fall 1997), en accés lliure a http:/​/​findarticles.com/​p/​articles/​mi_hb6408/​is_n2_ ...