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Book SynopsisThis volume of studies in honor of Stephen G. Nichols by colleagues, friends, and students is called Revealing New Perspectives because that is what his career exemplifies. As both the verb and adjective forms suggest, Steve has undeniably changed the course of medieval studies in ways which have had a global impact that continues to be profound.
He has always been committed to not only contextualizing the intellectual and artistic production of the past in which a work was created, but to considering it also according to the current theoretical optics of our time, since each age has its own set of aesthetic and cultural realities and expectations.
The contributions to this volume by sixteen distinguished medievalists are divided into the five sections of Visuals, Lyric, Philology, Alterity, and Rewritings. While it can, of course, be argued that each essay partakes of more than one of these categories, they have been globally organized into the category that pred
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“Revealing New Perspectives is a fitting tribute to the pioneering scholarship and ongoing innovation of Stephen Nichols. A volume that includes the fruit of long-standing reflections by some of today’s most eminent medievalists and exciting new work by a number of Nichols’ former students, Revealing New Perspectives offers rich reading for established scholars, and accessible pathways for students to some of medieval studies’ most compelling current issues, including the opportunities for investigation opened up by new technologies and the insights to be gained from engaging with the specificity and complex situatedness of each medieval work.” —Daisy Delogu, Professor of French, University of Chicago
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations – Acknowledgments – Kevin Brownlee/Marina S. Brownlee: Introduction, in honor of Stephen G. Nichols – Curriculum Vitae of Stephen G. Nichols – Kevin Brownlee/Marina S. Brownlee: Essays – Gabrielle Spiegel: Materializing Philology: Language, Literature, and Manuscript Culture in the Middle Ages – Mark Chinca: Philology and Poetry: The Petitcreiu Ekphrasis in Gottfried’s Tristan – Daniel Heller-Roazen: Errant Glory: The Lineages of Peter Schlemihl – R. Howard Bloch: Syllogisms in Stone: Theophilus, Stephen, Abelard on the Walls of Notre-Dame de Paris – Nancy Freeman Regalado: Signs on the Wall: Painting History into Satire in the Roman de Fauvel of Paris, BnF MS fr. 146 – Jody Enders: Burlesque Signs: Performance, Translation, and the Betrayal of Sexism – Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet: François Villon and the Ages of Life – Joachim Küpper: The Alterity of Medieval Iberian Poetry – Albert Lloret: The Space in the Poem: Jordi de Sant Jordi, IX & XIV – Michel Zink: Gaston Paris and Anatole France – Nadia Altschul: Fictionalizing Modernization Theory in Alejo Carpentier’s Los Pasos Perdidos: The Middle Ages in the Jungle – Marina S. Brownlee: Material and Spiritual Exchange: Examples from the Greek East and Latin West – Andreas Kablitz: Boccaccio’s Decameron—Novella I, 3 – Kevin Brownlee: Chaucer’s Early and Late Uses of the Two French Rose Authors – Kathy Krause: Narrative and History in Paris, BnF, fr. 1553: The Roman de la Violette in the Context of a Late 13th-Century Anthology Manuscript – Tracy Adams: Sapience, Prudence, and Theatricality: Preparing the Political Princess – List of Contributors – Index.
