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Festschrifts are often marred by a lack of coherence or a retrospective, elegiac cast. By contrast, this volume coheres through its methodology and projects the need for future work. It is impressively wide-ranging in its language, culture, and topic. -- Sarah Spence, University of Georgia

Table of Contents

Introduction. The New Philology Comes of Age
Chapter 1. New Challenges for the New Medievalism
Chapter 2. Reflections on The New Philology
Chapter 3. Virgil's "Perhaps": Mythopoiesis and Cosmogony in Dante's Commedia (Remarks on Inf. 34, 106–26)
Chapter 4. Dialectic of the Medieval Course
Chapter 5. Religious Horizon and Epic Effect: Considerations on the Iliad, the Chanson de Roland, and the Nibelungenlied
Chapter 6. The Possibility of Historical Time in the Crónica Sarracina
Chapter 7. Good Friday Magic: Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Transformation of Medieval Vernacular Poetry
Chapter 8. The Identity of a Text
Chapter 9. Conceiving the Text in the Middle Ages
Chapter 10. Dante's Transfigured Ovidian Models: Icarus and Daedalus in the Commedia
Chapter 11. Ekphrasis in the Knight's Tale
Chapter 12. Montaigne's Medieval Nominalism and Meschonnic's Ethics of the Subject
Chapter 13. The Pèlerinage Corpus in the European Middle Ages: Processes of Retextualization Reflected in the Prologues
Chapter 14. Narrative Frames of Augustinian Thought in the Renaissance: The Case of Rabelais
Chapter 15. From Romanesque Architecture to Romance
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

R. Howard Bloch is chair of the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. He is author of several books, including Medievalism and the Modernist Temper, cowritten with Stephen Nichols, and published by Johns Hopkins. Alison Calhoun is a new faculty fellow and visiting assistant professor of French at Indiana University. Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet is a professor of French literature at the Sorbonne. Joachim Kupper is a professor of philology at Freie Universitat Berlin. Jeanette Patterson is a new faculty fellow of French and Italian at Princeton University.

Reviews

The present volume in many ways celebrates and continues Nichols's ideas and influence in the past 25 years, but it does much more than that. As Bloch (French and Romance philology, Columbia Univ.) puts it in his introduction, the essays "contain many elements belonging to the New Philology-an attention to the material conditions of the medieval work, especially to the givens of manuscript culture, a questioning of authorship and authority, an interrogation of the integrity of medieval texts, recognition of the relation between the verbal and the visual."... Nichols's discussion of the challenges and opportunities for new philology in the digital age will be required reading in graduate seminars on digital humanities. Choice