• The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits

    Author(s):
    Jennie Friedrich, Christopher Roman, Thomas R. Schneider, Robert Stanton, Carolynn Van Dyke, Sarah Breckenridge Wright
    Editor(s):
    James Smith (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, History, Medieval Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400, Literature, History, Geography, Critical theory
    Item Type:
    Book
    Tag(s):
    Networks, travel, embodiment, geopolitics, Medieval Ecocriticism, Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer, Literary history, Materiality, Critical geography
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6SC2T
    Abstract:
    What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. The resulting volume asks a core question: what can we learn by tarrying at the nexus points and hubs through which things move in and out of texts, attempting to trace not the things themselves or their supposedly stable significations, but rather their forms of emergence and retreat, of disorder and disequilibrium? The answer is complex and intermediate, for we ourselves are emerging and retreating within our own systems of transit and experiencing our own disequilibrium. Scholarship, like transit, is never complete and yet never congeals into inertia. TABLE OF CONTENTS // James L. Smith, “Introduction: Transport, Scape, Flow: Medieval Transit Systems” — Christopher Roman, “Bios in The Prik of Conscience: The Apophatic Body and the Sensuous Soul” — Jennie Friedrich, “Concordia discors: The Traveling Heart as Foreign Object in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde” — Robert Stanton, “Whan I schal passyn hens: Moving With/In The Book of Margery Kempe” — Carolynn Van Dyke, “Animal Vehicles: Mobility beyond Metaphor” — Sarah Breckenridge Wright, “Building Bridges to Canterbury” — Thomas R. Schneider, “Chaucer’s Physics: Motion in The House of Fame”
    Notes:
    This book will be embargoed for six months under a graduated open access program, but is available for download for a small donation or as a print-on demand book. See: https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-passenger-medieval-texts-and-transits/
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    Pub. Date:
    08/12/2017
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    13: 978-1-947447-37-0
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