Recently added articles from The Modern Language Review:
The earliest known English Ballad: a new reading of 'Judas'.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACTS The thirteenth-century Middle English 'Judas' though originally intended for performance, is uniquely preserved in a Franciscan manuscript, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS B.14.39, in a truncated version probably meant for use as an exemplum in a sermon emphasizing ...
'For my synne and for my yong delite': Chaucer, the Tale of Beryn, and the problem of Adolescentia.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Most criticism of the Tale of Beryn deals principally with the 'continuities' between the text and Chaucer's work. Contrary to this position, the pesent paper concentrates on the points at which Beryn departs from Chaucer, signalling how the later poet ...
'I will not weep': reading through the tears of Henry Mackenzie's Man of Feeling.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article investigates tears of sympathy as part of a sentimental reading practice in the eighteenth century, and describes how Henry Mackenzie'shovel The Man of Feeling self-consciously enacts the reader's educationvia sympathetic emotional response. Mackenzie's ...
X marks the spot: the place of the father in Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Graal.(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The place, name, and image of the father lie at the heart of the Conte du Graal's many enigmas. The romance locates knowledge of the father in an inaccessible space ailleurs (elsewhere). As such, the topos of ailleurs provides both unity and structure to the tensions ...
Violence: a touch fo anxiety among the Narbonnais?(Critical essay)
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In contemporary discourse, 'medieval' has come to describe the violence of a deregulated, premodern Other. This article interrogates such a construction of the medieval by exploring the status of touch, contact, and violence in the chansons de geste of the Narbonnais ...