Recently added articles from Philological Quarterly:
Hermeneutical perversions: Ralph of Coggeshall's "Witch of Rheims".(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Neufeld, Christine M. ... In his contribution to the Chronicon Anglicanum, the Cistercian chronicler Ralph of Coggeshall interrupts his account of the preparations made for the Fourth Crusade in 1199 to recount six anecdotes of local marvels and recent miracles. The focus in the first four "wonder tales"--the ...
Reading the lies of poets: the literal and the allegorical in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse.(Guillaume de Machaut)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Huot, Sylvia ... <Pre>Li poete qui jadis furent,Qui eulz et le siecle decurent,Dieu le creatour mescrioientEt les creatures crioient,Se fesoient au pueple acroireTel fiction qui pas n'ert voire. (1) </Pre> (Ovide Moralise) Much critical attention in the past ...
"With many a floryn he the hewes boghte": ekphrasis and symbolic violence in the Knight's Tale.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Epstein, Robert ... From Homer's shield of Achilles to Auden's, ekphrasis, "the verbal representation of visual representation," (1) has featured prominently in Western literature and has inspired an equally rich critical tradition. Throughout this critical history, ekphrasis has been received primarily as a ...
Henry Constable and the question of Catholic poetics: affective piety and erotic identification in the Spirituall Sonnettes.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Kuchar, Gary ... In the preface to her 1960 edition of Henry Constable's poetry, Joan Grundy contextualizes Constable's Spirituall Sonnettes in relation to post-Tridentine aesthetics by observing that he uses "the sonnet form to express religious experience"; that he addresses "a series of sonnets to God ...
The Tempest and the discontents of humanism.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Stanivukovic, Goran ... "Which play / Were we in?" Ted Hughes, "Setebos" (1) Since the peak of postcolonial approaches to Shakespeare's work in the decade between the 1980s and 1990s, The Tempest has been read as a drama of colonial expansion and a play about the subordination of the natives of the ...
Revolt in Utica: reading Cato against Cato.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Terry, Richard ... 1 One type of speech exchange in particular characterizes Addison's play Cato: it occurs when a character voices an opinion, often of an entirely inoffensive nature, only to be rebuked by a respondent for lapsing from the true mark of political selflessness. In an early scene, ...
Haywood's re-appropriation of the amatory heroine in Betsy Thoughtless.(Eliza Haywood)(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Hultquist, Aleksondra ... Although Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740) continues to hold sway over critical accounts of the English novel, scholars have also argued that the influence of amatory fiction was not, in fact, silenced by Pamela's publication. Catherine Ingrassia, Patrick Spedding, and ...
Peacock in love: reminiscences of Cecilia Jenkins, an unknown Victorian novelist.(Critical essay)
Jan 01, 2006; Joukovsky, Nicholas A. ... An editor of literary letters sometimes needs a bit of luck, as well as the persistence of a detective, to track down a "missing person." When I began to collect the letters of Thomas Love Peacock, I naturally wanted to identify the Mrs. Jenkins mentioned by his granddaughter Edith Nicolls ...
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; Stanivukovic, Goran ... Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality: Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism by Alan Sinfield. London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xii + 225. $110 cloth; $33.95 paper. Without succumbing to theoretical cliches or predictable conclusions, in eleven essays that make up this book Alan ...
Fundamentalism and Literature.(Book review)
Jan 01, 2006; Arthur, Chris ... Fundamentalism and Literature. Edited by Catherine Pesso-Miquel and Klaus Stierstorfer. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. vi + 220. $65 cloth. This is a book redeemed by several excellent chapters. Redemption is made necessary because there is so little editorial input ...