Showing papers in "Modern Language Review in 1997"
TL;DR: The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France as mentioned in this paper traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centuries later.
Abstract: His latest book vibrates with the strange political and literary energies of ancien regime France. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France traces the merging of philosophical, sexual, and anti-monarchical interests into the pulp fiction of the 1780s, banned books that make fascinating reading more than two centuries later. French literature of the eighteenth century means to us today Rousseau and Voltaire and the \"classic\" texts that, we imagine, gave rise to the Revolution. Yet very few of the standard works of the Enlightenment were as widely read as books whose names we have never heard, books that were the currency of a huge literary underground during the reign of Louis XVI. Included in this volume are Darnton's translations of excerpts from three of these works. After twenty-five years of research, Darnton has summarized his findings in one brilliant work that examines the reciprocal relationship between private literature and the public world, the (illegal) spread of Enlightenment thought, and the interesting possibility that the writings of some not-so-famous authors contributed to the fall of the French aristocracy.
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TL;DR: In this article, Coombe, de Grazia, Marvin D'Lugo, John Feather, N. N. Feltes, Ann Ruggles Gere, Peter Jaszi, Gerhard Joseph, Peter Lindenbaum, Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa Ede, Jeffrey A. Masten, Thomas Pfau, Monroe E. Price and Malla Pollack, Mark Rose, Marlon B. Thomas, Martha Woodmansee, Alfred C. Yen
Abstract: Contributors. Rosemary J. Coombe, Margreta de Grazia, Marvin D'Lugo, John Feather, N. N. Feltes, Ann Ruggles Gere, Peter Jaszi, Gerhard Joseph, Peter Lindenbaum, Andrea A. Lunsford and Lisa Ede, Jeffrey A. Masten, Thomas Pfau, Monroe E. Price and Malla Pollack, Mark Rose, Marlon B. Ross, David Sanjek, Thomas Streeter, Jim Swan, Max W. Thomas, Martha Woodmansee, Alfred C. Yen
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TL;DR: This article charted the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture, and showed how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mould Victorian science, which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
Abstract: Victorians were fascinated by the strange new worlds which science was revealing to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew forth heated debates. The aristocracy and the middle class avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes, and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. This study sets out to capture the essence of this fascination with science, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mould Victorian science - which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
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TL;DR: A Skelton in the closet: English literary identity betwixt and between as discussed by the authors, the time of the nation and public literature in the sixteenth century, and the national form: rhetoric and literary theory from Wilson to Puttenham.
Abstract: Preface Introduction: the nation and public literature in the sixteenth century 1. A Skelton in the closet: English literary identity betwixt and between 2. John Bale and the time of the nation 3. Literature and history - a mirror for magistrates 4. Towards a national form: rhetoric and literary theory from Wilson to Puttenham 5. Whose bloody country is it anyway? Sir Philip Sidney, the nation and the public 6. 'Who knowes not Colin Clout?': the permanent exile of Edmund Spenser Notes Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the pastoral movement and deviant speech in the Pentecost, the lies of the Fall, the tongues of PentecOST: typing and converting the deviant speaker, and the Confessio Amantis.
Abstract: Introduction 1. The pastoral movement and deviant speech: major texts 2. The lies of the Fall, the tongues of Pentecost: typing and converting the deviant speaker 3. Exemplifying deviant speech: murmur in Patience 4. Confessing the deviant speaker: verbal deception in the Confessio Amantis 5. Reforming deviant social practices: turpiloquium/scurrilitas in the B Version of Piers Plowman 6. Restraining the deviant speaker: Chaucer's Manciple and Parson Bibliography Index.
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TL;DR: This new edition of The Towneley Plays (c. 1500) replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This new edition of The Towneley Plays (c. 1500) replaces the edition by George England and Alfred W. Pollard published nearly one hundred years ago by the Early English Text Society. Apart from the corrections of errors in the transcription of the text, the new edition offers a comprehensive introduction, body of notes, and glossary. It also presents the text in a new format, based on an examination of the manuscript, by expanding stanzas attributed to the so-called "Wakefield Master" from nine lines (with some internal rhyme) to thirteen lines.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi A-zdamar, who writes in German and whose work, especially her highly acclaimed novel Das ist eine Karawanserei, is examined critically and situated in the context of German "migrant literature".
Abstract: For many decades Germany has had a sizeable Turkish minority that lives in an uneasy co-existence with the Germans around them and as such has attracted considerable interest abroadwhere it tends to be seen as a measure of German tolerance. However, little is known about theactual situation of the Turks. This volume provides valuable information, presented in a most original manner in that it combines literary and cultural studies with social and political analysis. It focuses on the Turkish-born writer Emine Sevgi A-zdamar, who writes in German and whosework, especially her highly acclaimed novel Das ist eine Karawanserei, is examined criticallyand situated in the context of German "migrant literature".
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the apocalytic interpretation of the New Testament, the end of the world and the beginning of Christendom, the McGinn pattern and purpose in history in the later Medieval and Renaissance periods, Marjorie Reeves 17th-century millennarianism, Richard Popkin.
Abstract: Introduction: on making ends meet, Malcolm Bull. Part 1 How Tim acquired a consummation, Norman Cohn "Upon whom the ends of the ages have come" - apocalytic and the interpretation of the New Testament, Christopher Rowland the end of the world and the beginning of Christendom, Bernard McGinn pattern and purpose in history in the later Medieval and Renaissance periods, Marjorie Reeves 17th-century millennarianism, Richard Popkin. Part 2 Secular apocalypse - prophets and apocalyptics at the end of the 18th century, Elinor Shaffer Saint-Simonian industrialism as the end of history, August Cieszkowski on the teleology of universal history, Laurence Dickey apocalypse, millennium and utopia today, Krishan Kumar Part 3 The "apocalyptic tone" in philosophy - Kant, Derrida, Foucault, Christopher Norris waiting for the end, Frank Kermode, beginning and ending - Adrono as lateness itself, Edward Said.
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TL;DR: In this article, the discourse of natural beauty, the city and the self, Phillip Mallet pollution, defilement and the art of decomposition, David Carroll ''mappa mundi, anima mundi'' - imaginative mapping and environmental representation, Denis Cosgrove \"A great entail\" - the historic environment, Gill Chitty the role of the railways, Jeffrey Richards the National Trust - preservation or provision?, John Walton environment and apocalypse, Michael Wheeler conclusion, Terry Gifford.
Abstract: Introduction, Michael Wheeler the discourse of natural beauty, Keith Hanley the city and the self, Phillip Mallet pollution, defilement and the art of decomposition, David Carroll \"mappa mundi, anima mundi\" - imaginative mapping and environmental representation, Denis Cosgrove \"A great entail\" - the historic environment, Gill Chitty the role of the railways, Jeffrey Richards the National Trust - preservation or provision?, John Walton environment and apocalypse, Michael Wheeler conclusion, Terry Gifford.
TL;DR: The Lexicon of Cajun French in Louisiana as mentioned in this paper has been used extensively in the literature to study the sociolinguistic situation of French in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes.
Abstract: 1. Introduction A. Valdman. 2. The Sociolinguistic Situation of Cajun French: The Effects of Language Shift and Language Loss C. Blyth. 3. Field Method in Four Cajun Communities in Louisiana S. Dubois. 4. A Structural Sketch of the Cajun French Spoken in Lafourche and Terrebonne Parishes R.A. Papen, K.J. Rottet. 5. The Structure of Louisiana Creole A. Valdman, T.A. Klingler. 6. The Lexicon of Louisiana French T.A. Klingler, M.D. Picone, A. Valdman. 7. The Louisiana French Movement: Actors and Actions in Social Change J. Henry. 8. The Development of a Louisiana French Norm B. Brown. 9. French and Creole on St. Barth and St. Thomas J. Maher. 10. Structural Aspects and Current Sociolinguistic Situation of Acadian French K. Flikeid. 11. Sociolinguistic Heterogenity: The Franco-Ontarians R. Mougeon. 12. Towards a Lexicography of French in Louisiana: Historical and Geographical Aspects P. Rezeau. 13. The Origin and Development of Louisiana Creole French M.M. Marshall. 14. Research on Louisiana French Folklore and Folklife B.J. Ancelet. Name and Title Index. Subject Index.
TL;DR: This article argued that the chansons de geste and romance are engaged in a productive and telling dialogue; moreover, each genre illuminates the political unconscious of the other: those political conflicts and contradictions that the text attempts to evade and disguise.
Abstract: This is a major reassessment of the relation between the medieval French chansons de geste and the romance genre. Critics have traditionally seen romance as a superior development of the chanson de geste. The chanson de geste are seen as 'formulaic', composed from a public fund of pre-existant and primarily oral narratives and motifs; romance on the other hand, is seen as a more sophisticated product of a newly 'literary' story-telling, line with the more complex social and political conditions of the time. Sarah Kay rejects this 'developmental' model of literary history and, through detailed readings of large numbers of texts - from the well-known Renaut de Montauban or Raoul de Cambrai to the unjustly neglected Doon de la Roche or Orson de Beauvais - reveals the simultaneity of the chansons de geste and romance in medieval culture. Drawing tellingly on recent literary and feminist theory, Kay argues that the chanson de geste and romance are engaged in a productive and telling dialogue; moreover, each genre illuminates the 'political unconscious' of the other: those political conflicts and contradictions that the text attempts to evade and disguise. In particular, Kay contends that romance brings with it new forms of sexism and patriarchy - forms much closer to those of the present - and that these need to be read against the politics of sexual difference inscribed in chansons de geste.
TL;DR: The history of the theme of faith and literacy in the later Middle Ages can be traced back to the early 15th century as mentioned in this paper, when the Waldensians of Languedoc and Catalonia were more literate than their contemporaries.
Abstract: 1. Heresy and literacy: earlier history of the theme Peter Biller 2. Literacy and the making of heresy c.1000-c.1150 R. I. Moore 3. Wisdom from the East: the reception by the Cathars of Eastern dualist texts Bernard Hamilton 4. The Cathars of Languedoc and written materials Peter Biller 5. Italian Catharism and written culture Lorenzo Paolini 6. Heresy and literacy: evidence of the thirteenth-century exempla Aaron Gurevich 7. The literacy of Waldensianism from Valdes to c.1400 Alexander Patschovsky 8. Waldensian books Anne Brenon 9. Waldensians in the Dauphine (1400-1530): from dissidence in texts to dissidence in practice Pierette Paravy 10. Were the Waldensians more literate than their contemporaries (1460-1560)? Gabriel Audisio 11.Writing and resistance among Beguins of Languedoc and Catalonia Robert E. Lerner 12. Religious reading amongst the laity in France in the fifteenth century Genevieve Hasenohr 13. Laicus litteratus: the paradox of Lollardy Anne Hudson 14. Literacy and heresy in Hussite Bohemia Frantisek Smahel 15. Heterodoxy, literacy and print in the early German Reformation Bob Scribner 16. Literacy, heresy, history and orthodoxy: perspectives and permutations for the later Middle Ages R. N. Swanson.
TL;DR: The Faerie Queene as mentioned in this paper explores the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.
Abstract: \"The Faerie Queene\" anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and this study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late-20th century. In these books, Spenser exposes fictions of total control for what they are - fictions. The text affirms the value of risk and improvization over temptation to seek guarantees. The books examine the role of desire in moving us to function in an uncertain world and tempting us to foreclose that uncertainty by strategies that seek to frame knowledge through total mastery of it.
TL;DR: Horrox as discussed by the authors described the king and his subjects as follows: 1. The king, his subjects, and the king's subjects G. L. Harriss 2. Law and justice Edward Powell 3. Aristocracy Kate Mertes 4. Service Rosemary Horrox 5. Education and advancement Michael J. Bennett 6. Information and science Peter Murray Jones 7. Women P. P. Goldberg 8. Palliser 9. Rural society Mark Bailey 10. The poor Miri Rubin 11. Religion Colin Richmond 12.
Abstract: List of illustrations Introduction Rosemary Horrox 1. The king and his subjects G. L. Harriss 2. Law and justice Edward Powell 3. Aristocracy Kate Mertes 4. Service Rosemary Horrox 5. Education and advancement Michael J. Bennett 6. Information and science Peter Murray Jones 7. Women P. J. P. Goldberg 8. Urban society D. M. Palliser 9. Rural society Mark Bailey 10. The poor Miri Rubin 11. Religion Colin Richmond 12. Death Margaret Aston.
TL;DR: French Cultural Studies: An Introduction challenges received theories about France and French culture as discussed by the authors, and suggests new ways of looking at France and the French-speaking world through the ideas, images, and narratives of more than a century of turbulent history and political change.
Abstract: French Cultural Studies: An Introduction challenges received theories about France and French culture. The book takes into account the major changes which have been taking place in the context of French Studies in both secondary and higher education, with the focus shifting to a broader range of cultural forms. The Introduction adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its wide-ranging study of French culture and society since 1870, emphasizing recent and contemporary developments. It suggests new ways of looking at France and the French-speaking world through the ideas, images, and narratives of more than a century of turbulent history and political change. As well as looking at the literary, artistic, and intellectual culture for which France is renowned, the authors examine audio-visual media, popular culture, and cultural policy. They follow the stages of French history through periods of industrialization and war, reconstruction and modernization, and the crises and revolutions of post-colonialism and postmodernity. Also explored are the development of interconnecting patterns and cultural forms, in addition to the ways in which culture has shaped and refected social and historical change. Copiously illustrated, and with guidance for further reading, this fascinating and authoritative work will be essential reading for anyone interested in modern and contemporary French society and its culture.
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TL;DR: The Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) series as discussed by the authors is a collection of monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process.
Abstract: Friedrich Nietzsche has emerged as one of the most important and influential modern philosophers. For several decades, the book series Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) has set the agenda in a rapidly growing and changing field of Nietzsche scholarship. The scope of the series is interdisciplinary and international in orientation reflects the entire spectrum of research on Nietzsche, from philosophy to literary studies and political theory. The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that undergo a strict peer-review process. The book series is led by an international team of editors, whose work represents the full range of current Nietzsche scholarship.
TL;DR: The early modern period (1450-1720) as discussed by the authors, the German enlightenment (1720-1790) Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres 5. Aesthetic humanism (1790-1830) Nicholas Saul 6. Revolution, resignation, realism (1830-1890) Gail Finney 7. From naturalism to national socialism (1890-1945) Ritchie Robertson 8. The literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990) Helen Fehervary 9.
Abstract: List of contributors Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Carolingian period and the early Middle Ages (750-1100) Brian O. Murdoch 2. The high and later Middle Ages (1100-1450) Nigel F. Palmer 3. The early modern period (1450-1720) Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly 4. The German enlightenment (1720-1790) Ruth-Ellen Boetcher Joeres 5. Aesthetic humanism (1790-1830) Nicholas Saul 6. Revolution, resignation, realism (1830-1890) Gail Finney 7. From naturalism to national socialism (1890-1945) Ritchie Robertson 8. The literature of the German Democratic Republic (1945-1990) Helen Fehervary 9. German writing in the West (1945-1990) Moray McGowan Select bibliography Index.