Medieval Studies

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Review of The Post-Historical Middle Ages, Ed. Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2011)

The front cover of this essay collection gives equal space to a picture of Karl...

 

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In Memoriam Karl Heinz Göller (May 13, 1924 - April 22, 2009), Perspicuitas (2010)

Eulogy on academic teacher, adviser, and mentor; founding dean of the College of Languages and...

 
Literary Nominalism, Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010)
 

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Writing Alternative Worlds: Rituals of Authorship in Late Medieval Theological and Literary Discourse, Creations: Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation (2007)
 
Will it Do to Say Anything More About Chaucer, North American Review (2006)
 

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Otto Gründler: In Memoriam (1928-2004), Perspicuitas (2005)

Eulogy on Director of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University.

 
Philosophy, Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (2005)
 
Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon (with Georgiana Donavin and Cary J. Nederman) (2005)

The medieval sermon provides the focus for the first volume of Disputatio because it often...

 

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Medieval Nominalism and the Literary Questions: Selected Studies (with Terry Barakat), Perspicuitas (2004)

Like few other topics in the academic study of medieval literature, the search for the...

 

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Gender and Time in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Homo Narrans. Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz (2004)

The word "time," as defined by cultural critic Norbert Elias in his essay on the...

 
Medieval Forms of Argument: Disputation and Debate (with Georgiana Donavin and Carol Poster) (2002)
 

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Review of: Rosalyn Rossignol, Chaucer A to Z (1999), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2000)

In a 1984 essay for the journal New Literary History, Umberto Eco distinguishes between the...

 

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Constructions of Time in the Late Middle Ages (with Carol Poster) (1997)
 
Literary Nominalism in Chaucer's Late Medieval England, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms (1997)
 

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Nominalism and Literary Discourse: New Perspectives (with Hugo Keiper and Christoph Bode) (1997)

Influential accounts of European cultural history variously suggest that the rise of nominalism and its...

 
Sic et Non: Zu Funktion und Epistemologie des Sprichwortes bei Geoffrey Chaucer, Das Mittelalter: Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung (1997)
 

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The Late Medieval Epistle (with Carol Poster) (1996)
 
Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (1995)

This is the first volume to offer a comprehensive examination of the theoretical and practical...

 
Negotiating the Paradigm: Literary Nominalism and the Theory and Practice of Re-Reading Late Medieval Texts, Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts: A New Research Paradigm (1995)
 
Nominalist Perspectives on Chaucer's Poetry: A Bibliographical Essay (with William H. Watts), Medievalia et Humanistica (1993)
 
Peter von Kastl: Seine Übersetzung der Consolatio Philosophiae des spätrömischen Philosophen Boethius, Oberpfälzer Heimat (1993)

German translation, by Richard Utz, of a conference paper by N. H. Kaylor, “Peter von...

 
Literarischer Nominalismus im Spätmittelalter. Eine Untersuchung zu Sprache, Charakterzeichnung und Struktur in Geoffrey Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde (1990)

Innerhalb der philologischen Deutungen von Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde existieren eine Reihe kontrovers diskutierter Problemstände,...

 

Medievalism / Mittelalter-Rezeption / Médiévalisme / Medievalismo

A Moveable Feast: Repositionings of ‘The Medieval’ in Medieval Studies, Medievalism, and Neomedievalism, Neo-medievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television, and Electronic Games (2012)

Serves as Preface to the volume and frames, together with Terry Jones's "Epilogue," the fully-fledged...

 
Bernhard ten Brink and German English Studies in Lotharingia, Cahier Calin: Makers of the Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of William Calin (2011)
 

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Coming to Terms with Medievalism, European Journal of English Studies (2011)

Medievalism, the continuing reception of medieval culture in post-medieval times, has existed as an amphibolous...

 

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Makers of the Middle Ages (with Elizabeth Emery) (2011)

Republication of bibliophile print version published earlier in 2011 and electronic version published with bepress.com....

 

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Negotiating Heritage: Observations on Semantic Concepts, Temporality, and the Centre of the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, Philologie im Netz (2011)

This essay is a revised version of a paper originally presented at the "Fifth Conference...

 

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Review of: Mapping Medievalism on the Canadian Frontier, ed. Kathryn Brush (2011)

In 2012 it will be 20 years that I attended my first Medievalism conference at...

 

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Review of The Post-Historical Middle Ages, Ed. Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Federico, Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2011)

The front cover of this essay collection gives equal space to a picture of Karl...

 
Medievalism, Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (2010)
 
Pi(o)us Medievalism vs. Catholic Modernism: The Case of George Tyrell, The Year's Work in Medievalism (2010)

Investigates the use of "medievalism" by George Tyrell in his book, Medievalism. A Reply to...

 

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Eminent Chaucerians? Early Women Scholars and the History of Reading Chaucer (with Peter Schneck) (2009)

Most existing histories of Chaucer studies display a narrow focus on what might be considered...

 
Medievalitas Fugit: Medievalism and Temporality, Studies in Medievalism (2009)
 

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Culture and the Medieval King (with Christine Havens and Keith Russo), UNIversitas (2008)

In the spring semester of 2007, I offered a graduate seminar investigating the "The Arthurian...

 
Will it Do to Say Anything More About Chaucer, North American Review (2006)
 

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Falling Into Medievalism (with Anne Lair) (2006)

Medievalism, the continuing process of rethinking, rewriting, and recreating the Middle Ages, is a cultural...

 

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Medieval Scholarship in Englische Studien, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (2006)

As the proliferation of academic centers and publications in the area of Wissenschaftsgeschichte since the...

 

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Review of: Louise D'Arcens and Juanita Feros Ruys, eds. Maistresse of My Wit, English Faculty Publications (2005)

Review of D'Arcens, Louise D., and Juanita Feros Ruys, eds. Maistresse of My Wit: Medieval...

 

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'Mes souvenirs sont peut-être reconstruits': Medieval Studies, Medievalism, and the Scholarly and Popular Memories of the 'Right of the Lord's First Night', English Faculty Publications (2005)

Since the establishment of modern academic discourse in the nineteenth century, medieval (and other) scholars...

 
Postmodern Medievalisms (with Jesse Swan) (2005)

Bringing together significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms...

 
Remembering Ritual Murder: The Blood Accusation in Medieval and Contemporary Cultural Memory, Genre and Ritual: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals (2005)
 

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Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: An Addendum, Perspicuitas (2004)

Contains several additions to the “Annotated Bibliography” of German and Austrian Chaucer criticism between 1793...

 
There Are Places I Remember’: Situating the Medieval Past in Postmedieval Cultural Memories, Transfiguration: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kunst og Kristendom (2004)
 

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Medievalism and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Studies (with Aneta Dygon), English Faculty Publications (2002)

This annotated bibliography represents a solid first selection of critical studies discussing the creative and...

 
Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948 (2002)

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, German-speaking scholars played a decisive role in founding...

 
The Year's Work in Medievalism (with Jesse Swan) (2002)

Selected proceedings from the 2002 International Conference on Medievalism at the University of Northern Iowa.

 

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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: A Short History of German Chaucerphilologie in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, English Faculty Publications (2002)

Recent continuist 'grand narratives' of the archaeology of medieval studies blame philological practices for the...

 
Editing Chaucer: John Koch and the Forgotten Tradition, And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.’ Papers on Language and Literature in Honour of Prof. Dr. Karl Heinz Göller (2001)
 

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Medievalism in the Making: A Bibliography of Leslie J. Workman, The Year's Work in Medievalism (2001)
 
A Panel Discussion among Leslie J. Workman, T. A. Shippey, Allen J. Frantzen, Paul E. Szarmach, Richard J. Utz, and Arthur F. Kinney, The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Problems, Trends, and Opportunities in Research (1998)
 
‘Cleansing’ the Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius and His Medievalist Turn, Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman (1998)
 
Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon, Kindler's Neues Literatur Lexikon, Nachtragsband (1998)
 
Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman (with Tom Shippey) (1998)

The twenty-six essays in this volume examine the process of creating the Middle Ages. In...

 
Medievalism in the Modern World: Introductory Perspectives (with Tom Shippey), Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman (1998)
 
Resistance to (The New) Medievalism? Comparative Deliberations on (National) Philology, Mediävalismus, and Mittelalter-Rezeption in Germany and North America, The Future of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Problems, Trends, and Opportunities in Research (1998)
 
Speaking of Medievalism: An Interview with Leslie J. Workman, Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie Workman (1998)
 
Hugh von Lincoln und der Mythos vom jüdischen Ritualmord, Herrscher -- Helden -- Heilige (1996)
 

History of English Studies

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Review of: Renate Haas and Albert Hamm, The University of Strasbourg and the Foundation of Continental English Studies (2009), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2010)

At first sight, the title of this book, repeated on the cover and title pages...

 
Clemen Among the Chaucerians: Towards a Reception History of Der junge Chaucer, Clemen im Kontext. Ein Beitrag zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte vor und nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg (2009)

This essay investigates the genesis and reception of Wolfgang Clemen's influential book, Der junge Chaucer...

 
Englische Philologie vs. English Studies: A Foundational Conflict, Das Potential europäischer Philologien. Geschichte, Leistung, Funktion (2009)
 

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Medieval Scholarship in Englische Studien, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (2006)

As the proliferation of academic centers and publications in the area of Wissenschaftsgeschichte since the...

 

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Review of: Frank-Rutger Hausmann, Deutsche Geisteswissenschaft im Zweiten Weltkrieg (1999), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2004)

Several years ago, I was invited to contribute a paper to a panel on the...

 

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Review of: Balz Engler and Renate Haas, European English Studies (2000), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2003)

A time span of only eighteen years separates Thomas Finkenstaedt and Gertrud Scholtes's volume entitled...

 

Reception Studies

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Medieval Philology and Nationalism: The British and German Editors of Thomas of Erceldoune, Florilegium: Journal of the Canadian Society of Medievalists/Société canadienne des médiévistes (2006)

The reception of the late fourteenth-century romance/lay/ballad Thomas of Erceldoune by romantic enthusiasts, antiquarians, modernist...

 

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Medieval Scholarship in Englische Studien, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (2006)

As the proliferation of academic centers and publications in the area of Wissenschaftsgeschichte since the...

 
Eminent Chaucerians? Continuity and Transformation in German-Speaking Chaucer Philology, 1918-1948, Anglistik: Research Paradigms and Institutional Policies, 1930-2000 (2005)
 

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'Mes souvenirs sont peut-être reconstruits': Medieval Studies, Medievalism, and the Scholarly and Popular Memories of the 'Right of the Lord's First Night', English Faculty Publications (2005)

Since the establishment of modern academic discourse in the nineteenth century, medieval (and other) scholars...

 
Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology: A History of Critical Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies, 1793-1948 (2002)

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, German-speaking scholars played a decisive role in founding...

 

Varia Literaria et Linguistica

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Review of: Rodney Symington, The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare (2005), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2007)

In the sixty years since the end of the Nazi regime, German-speaking scholars have produced...

 

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Osnabrück Declaration on the Potential of European Philologies, Geschichte der Germanistik: Mitteilungen (2007)

English translation, by Richard Utz, of Christoph König's summary statement based on the 2006 conference,...

 

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Review of: A. D. Mills, A Dictionary of British Place Names (2003), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2005)

A. D. Mills is known to specialists in etymology and historical geography as the author...

 

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Review of: Liliana Sikorska, An Outline History of English Literature (2002), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (2004)

Histories of English literature have undergone much change since the eighteenth century. Before the institutionalization...

 
Das Zwillingspaar aus Chatwinshire: Bruce Chatwins antibinäre Utopie, Paare und Paarungen. Festschrift für Werner Wunderlich (2004)
 
Homo Narrans: Texts and Essays in Honor of Jerome Klinkowitz (with Zygmunt Mazur) (2004)

A Festschrift honoring Jerome Klinkowitz, Distinguished Scholar of American literature at the University of Northern...

 

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Reflecting Love at Quite Its Natural Size: Doris Dörrie as a Writer, Straight Through the Heart: Doris Dörrie, German Filmmaker and Author (2004)
 

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Bruce Chatwin, The Literary Encyclopedia (2001)
 

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In Patagonia, The Literary Encyclopedia (2001)
 

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On the Black Hill, The Literary Encyclopedia (2001)
 

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The Songlines, The Literary Encyclopedia (2001)
 

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The Viceroy of Ouidah, The Literary Encyclopedia (2001)
 

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Utz, The Literary Encyclopedia (2001)
 
Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines, Kindler's Neues Literatur Lexikon, Nachtragsband (1998)
 
Bruce Chatwin: Utz, Kindler's Neues Literatur Lexikon, Nachtragsband (1998)
 

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Review of: Jan Borme and Matthew Graves, ed. Bruce Chatwin: Anatomy of Restlessness (1996), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (1997)

When a writer of great promise dies early, literary and biographical mythmaking commences almost immediately....

 

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Review of: John Wilson Swope, Ready-to-Use Activities for Teaching Shakespeare (1993-1997), Prolepsis: The Heidelberg Review of English Studies (1997)

Swope's recent volumes will be a pleasant surprise for many an instructor at the "Sekundarstufe...

 
John Skelton: Here After Foloweth the Boke of Phylyp Sparowe, Kindler's Neues Literatur Lexikon (1996)
 
Reading/Teaching against the Grain: Literariness and Tarzan of the Apes in the Literature Classroom, Investigating the Unliterary: Six Essays on Burrough's Tarzan of the Apes (1995)
 
Lexicography and Gender-Neutrality: Example Phrases and Sentences in Three Modern Dictionaries of English, Language and Civilization: A Concerted Profusion of Essays and Studies in Honor of Otto Hietsch (1992)
 

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Osnabrück Declaration on the Potential of European Philologies, Geschichte der Germanistik: Mitteilungen (2007)

English translation, by Richard Utz, of Christoph König's summary statement based on the 2006 conference,...