Alliterative Revivals Christine Chism "A learned and witty book. .
. . "Alliterative Revivals" is an important effort to bring to the
study of these poems the concerns and methods which have
transformed literary study in other periods and genres. The book
shows courage and resourcefulness working around the gaps in our
knowledge of the poems' origins and contexts. Its successes will no
doubt encourage others to explore the possibilities of making late
medieval literature speak to new concern in new
voices."--"Arthuriana" "Alliterative Revivals" is the first
full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of
late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism,
feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine
Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving
and acknowledging potentially threatening figures from the medieval
past--pagan judges, primeval giants, Greek knights, Jewish
forefathers, Egyptian sorcerers, and dead ancestors. In addressing
the ways alliterative poems centralize history--the dangerous but
profitable commerce of the present with the past--Chism's book
shifts the emphasis from the philological questions that have
preoccupied studies of alliterative romance and offers a new
argument about the uses of alliterative poetry, how it appealed to
its original producers and audiences, and why it deserves attention
now. "Alliterative Revivals" examines eight poems: "St. Erkenwald,"
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," "The Wars of Alexander," "The
Siege of Jerusalem," the alliterative "Morte Arthure," "De Tribus
Regibus Mortuis," "The Awntyrs off Arthure," and "Somer Sunday."
Chism both historicizes these texts and argues that they are
themselves obsessed with history, dramatizing encounters between
the ancient past and the medieval present as a way for
fourteenth-century contemporaries to examine and rethink a range of
ideologies. These poems project contemporary conflicts into vivid,
vast, and spectacular historical theaters in order to reimagine the
complex relations between monarchy and nobility, ecclesiastical
authority and lay piety, courtly and provincial culture, western
Christendom and its easterly others, and the living and their dead
progenitors. In this, alliterative romance joins hands with other
late fourteenth-century literary texts that make trouble at the
borders of aristocratic culture. Christine Chism teaches English at
Rutgers University. The Middle Ages Series 2002 336 pages 6 1/8 x 9
/14 ISBN 978-0-8122-3655-2 Cloth $69.95s 45.50 ISBN
978-0-8122-0158-1 Ebook $69.95s 45.50 World Rights Literature Short
copy: Addressing the ways alliterative poems share concerns with
history and the often-dangerous confrontation of the present with
the past, Christine Chism shifts her focus away from the emphases
on meter, dialect, and provenance that have routinely marked
studies of alliterative poetry.
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