Rethinking the New Medievalism

Contents

c o n t e n t s Introduction. The New Philology Comes of Age r. howard bloch 1 1 New Challenges for the New Medievalism stephen g. nichols 12 2 Reflections on The New Philology gabrielle m. spiegel 39 3 Virgil’s “Perhaps”: Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in Dante’s Commedia (Remarks on Inf. 34, 106–26) gerhard regn 51 4 Dialectic of the Medieval Course daniel heller-roazen 69 5 Religious Horizon and Epic Effect: Considerations on the Iliad, the Chanson de Roland, and the Nibelungenlied joachim küpper 85 6 The Possibility of Historical Time in the Crónica Sarracina marina brownlee 100 7 Good Friday Magic: Petrarch’s Canzoniere and the Transformation of Medieval Vernacular Poetry andreas kablitz 115 8 The Identity of a Text jan-dirk müller 136 9 Conceiving the Text in the Middle Ages jacqueline cerquiglini-toulet 151 vi Contents 10 Dante’s Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus and Daedalus in the Commedia kevin brownlee 162 11 Ekphrasis in the Knight’s Tale andrew james johnston 181 12 Montaigne’s Medieval Nominalism and Meschonnic’s Ethics of the Subject jack abecassis 198 13 The Pèlerinage Corpus in the European Middle Ages: Processes of Retextualization Reflected in the Prologues, ursula peters 218 14 Narrative Frames of Augustinian Thought in the Renaissance: The Case of Rabelais deborah n. losse 236 15 From Romanesque Architecture to Romance r. howard bloch 249 Contributors 271 Index 273 Rethinking the New Medievalism This page intentionally left blank ...