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Book SynopsisThe second part of Medievalism and the Academy identifies the four specific questions that have come to focus recent scholarship in medievalism: What is difference? what is theory? woman? God?The impact of cultural studies on contemporary medieval studies is investigated in this latest volume of
Studies in Medievalism, which also offers an account of the developing interest of contemporary cultural theorists inthe medieval period. Rather than dismissing the connection between medieval studies and cultural criticism as an expression of academic self-interest, the essays identify specific questions which engage both, such as race, history, women, religion, and literature. Topics include the use of Augustine by postcolonial theorists; the influence of studies in medieval mysticism on the development of women's studies programs; and the influence of Foucault and NewHistoricism on the study of medieval history. Contributors: ELLIE RAGLAND, TIMOTHY RICHARDSON, MICHAEL BERNARD-DONALS, CLAY KINSNER, LINDA SEXSON, REBECCA DOUGLASS, LOUISE SYLVESTER, RICHARD GLEJZER, CHARLES WILSON, ANDREW J. DELL'OLIO
Table of ContentsEurope in the Antipodes: Australian Medieval Studies - Louise D'Arcens The Manichean Problem in Post-Colonial Criticism: or, Why the Subaltern Cannot Speak - Michael Bernard-Donals The Metaphoric Language Functions of Mary Daly's Eight Deadly Sins: The Possibility of (K)no(w)ing without Loss - Krista Ratcliffe Medievalism, Race, and Social Order in Gloria Naylor's Bailey's Cafe - Charles E Wilson, Jr The Supposed Nominalism of William of Ockham and the Lacanian Real - Ellie Ragland The New Medievalism and the (Im)possibility of the Middle Ages - Richard R Glejzer Reading Rape in Medieval Literature - Ecocriticism and Middle English Literature - Rebecca M Douglass The Female Mystics, Women's Studies, and the Negotiation of Discourse - Clay Kinsner Nature's Old Tunic and the Erotic Sudarium: A Versicle on the Text and Texture of Medievalism - Lynda Sexson Brian Eno and the Music of the Spheres: The Possibility of a Postmodern Church - Timothy Richardson Alasdair MacIntyre's Moral Medievalism - Andrew J Dell'Olio
