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Geographies of Contact
No full textThis interdisciplinary collection of essays, in keeping with recent historiographic approaches to East-West cultural relations, focuses on the material and spatial conditions of cultural encounters between Britain and the Middle East, from the late Middle Ages to the dawn of the twentieth century. By exploring a diversity of contexts and sites of encounter (from cosmopolitan cities to private collections), and by underlining the manifold nature of cultural exchanges connected with them, the essays outline the dynamic and complex interplay which contributed to the circulation of knowledge between these regions. They also bring together a variety of practices (diplomatic, geographical, aesthetic, archaeological, literary or commercial) in order to highlight the multi-layered dimension of these cultural transfers and exchanges
A Journey Towards Freedom? :Negotiating Freedom Through Travelling in The Book of Margery Kempe
No full textLLCER Mondes AnglophonesThe Book of Margery Kempe, the autobiography of an English visionary woman of the 15th century, deals with matters of spirituality and with the right to undertake pilgrimages. Indeed, by devoting herself to Christ, Margery Kempe undertook several pilgrimages as well across her native land as overseas. Yet, her right to travel needed to be negotiated with different figures of authority, which led to the need to negotiate her freedom of movement. This close reading will focus on the themes of freedom and travel and examine the role travel, space, and spirituality played in Margery Kempe’s freedom.Thèses et écrits académique
Staging English Contacts with the Middle East in Mandeville’s Travels
No full textFirst written in the mid-fourteenth century, in 1356 or 1357, Mandeville’s Travels or The Book of John Mandeville, though originally couched in French, claims to be the work of an English knight, named Sir John Mandeville, who left St Albans in England on St Michael’s day in 1322 (both the prologue and the epilogue of the book refer to this date), and returned home 34 years later (epilogue), after having travelled the world and seen “manye diverse londes and many prouynces and kyngdomes and i..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Poetics of Framing, Performing Frames in the Visual Arts
No full textThis collection of essays investigates the question of the frame from various angles such as art history, literary studies, visual studies and intermediality. Located at the junction between the external and the internal space of the work of art, the frame deploys the extent of its power as it is about to make the work happen. It is understood as a process that takes place in the interaction between the work of art and the space exterior to it. It thus problematizes the connections between the work and its spatial environment and more largely its cultural and political/ideological implications. The collection gathers essays focusing on painting, photography, manuscript studies, and literature, and analyses works produced in Anglophone countries (from the British Isles to the United States, from Canada to Australia) from the Middle Ages to the present. Les articles de ce numéro abordent la question du cadre à partir de perspectives aussi diverses que celles de l’histoire de l’art, des études littéraires, des études visuelles et de l’intermédialité. Situé au point de jonction entre l’extérieur et l’intérieur, le cadre exprime pleinement son potentiel au moment où il fait advenir l’œuvre en tant qu’œuvre. Le cadre se comprend ici comme un processus qui s’accomplit lors de l’interaction entre l’œuvre et l’espace qui l’entoure. Le cadre problématise les liens entre une œuvre et son environnement spatial, et plus largement ses implications culturelles, politiques et idéologiques. Les articles rassemblés ici portent sur la peinture, la photographie, les manuscrits et la littérature, et analysent des œuvres produites dans les pays anglophones (des Îles Britanniques aux États-Unis, du Canada à l’Australie) du Moyen Âge à aujourd’hui
Sir Launfal: an echo to Breton Lays?
No full textEchoes are a distinguishing feature of Middle English Breton lays, which resound with many voices, and hinge around the problem of articulating repetition and variation. It is therefore appropriate that Sir Launfal, a late 14th century Breton lay by Thomas Chestre, should itself be fraught with echoes. The plotline actually insists on the crucial importance of speech, truth and lies in the fictional world. While the courtly world is consistently presented as a world of lies and gossip, Sir Launfal himself gradually emerges as a figure embodying truthfulness. The lay therefore pits distorted echoes, such as ring in both Arthur’s court, and the Mayor’s city, against faithful echoes, which characterise Launfal’s speeches. The hero’s misadventures at court fuel Chestre’s satiric representation of the courtly world, which he presents as a mere sham whereas he depicts Lady Tryamour as the epitome of truthfulness. In her, desire and fulfilment coincide, annihilating the painful gap between words and reality, desire and actual fact. She stands as Guenore’s symmetric opposite in the lay, and it is remarkable that her appearance at court marks the end of gossip, and re-establishes the truth. Nevertheless, Tryamour and Launfal’s departure at the end of the lay signals that truthfulness, ideal knighthood and courtesy do no longer exist in the human world. From this point of view, Sir Launfal departs from other Breton lays, displacing the knightly ideal from the courtly world into an inaccessible fairy land. Chestre’s poem is indeed but an echo to Breton lays
'Et la mer et l'amour ont le rêve pour partage...' : Aimer par-delà les mers dans trois récits anglais de la fin du Moyen Age
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