ABSTRACT This paper takes Edward Said’s foundational critique of Western discourses of knowledge ... more ABSTRACT This paper takes Edward Said’s foundational critique of Western discourses of knowledge about the “Orient” as a way of intervening in the tradition of reading Chaucer’s only scientific text, The Treatise on the Astrolabe. I argue for recognizing the “colour” of Chaucer’s originary text of “Messahala, an Arabic astronomer, by religion a Jew”, and against naturalising the Treatise as an “unmarked white” text. My argument is that there are cultural and political values at stake in Chaucer’s pedagogical text.
Abstract: This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany’s important and influential “Slaying Pytho... more Abstract: This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany’s important and influential “Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text” (1996). Delany’s argument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions in liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical poetic figure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer’s acceptance of the post of Comptroller of the Wool Custom and the Wool Subsidy in June 1374 and comments that Chaucer’s “career shifted decisively away from the immediate environs of the royal court”: the Comptroller’s “job itself was something of a chore and not a usual avenue to promotion for an ambitious squire.” My argument is that this fourteen-year career as a bureaucrat, coming as it does after Chaucer’s earlier periods of military service (1359-60, 1369, 1370) and the years 1366-1378 during which Chaucer undertakes perhaps five diplomatic and trade missions, raises a question about the subjectivity we construct for Chaucer out of the conjunction of public writing and personal history: what might it mean to read a “bureaucratic Chaucer”?
... See ,Jenna Mead, '''. anti-imperialist approaches to Chaucer (are ... more ... See ,Jenna Mead, '''. anti-imperialist approaches to Chaucer (are there those ?)' An Essay in Identifying Strategies," Southern Review, 27, no. 4 (1994), 40.`3-17. '' C'lzaucer: 'Ihe Critiwl Heritage, vols. I and 2, ed. Derek Brewcr ( London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978). ...
... Objective Division: Cultural Understanding. Objective Group: Communication. Objective Field: ... more ... Objective Division: Cultural Understanding. Objective Group: Communication. Objective Field: Communication Across Languages and Culture. Creator: Mead, J (Dr Jenna Mead). ID Code: 43998. Year Published: 2001. Deposited By: English, Journalism and European Languages ...
Publikationsansicht. 38894199. The First Stone : it's all in the pitch (1995). Mead, J. ... more Publikationsansicht. 38894199. The First Stone : it's all in the pitch (1995). Mead, J. Details der Publikation. Download, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/5314. Archiv, UTas eCite RODA Server (University of Tasmania Research Output Digital Asset Repository) (). ...
Jenna Mead i So, let me begin and tell you about Caroline Leakey's body by readi... more Jenna Mead i So, let me begin and tell you about Caroline Leakey's body by reading from the only contemporaneous biographical source. This text situates both its subject and its project in interrogative ways that I will go on to discuss. But for now I want to quote from ...
This edited collection of essays is divided into four parts 'Medieval performers of narrat... more This edited collection of essays is divided into four parts 'Medieval performers of narrative and their art,' 'Medieval performance and the book,' 'Performability and medieval narrative genres' and 'Perspectives from contemporary performers' and combines contributions ...
ABSTRACT This paper takes Edward Said’s foundational critique of Western discourses of knowledge ... more ABSTRACT This paper takes Edward Said’s foundational critique of Western discourses of knowledge about the “Orient” as a way of intervening in the tradition of reading Chaucer’s only scientific text, The Treatise on the Astrolabe. I argue for recognizing the “colour” of Chaucer’s originary text of “Messahala, an Arabic astronomer, by religion a Jew”, and against naturalising the Treatise as an “unmarked white” text. My argument is that there are cultural and political values at stake in Chaucer’s pedagogical text.
Abstract: This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany’s important and influential “Slaying Pytho... more Abstract: This paper takes its lead from Sheila Delany’s important and influential “Slaying Python: Marriage and Misogyny in a Chaucerian Text” (1996). Delany’s argument offers a number of theoretical and interpretive interventions in liberal humanist readings of a particular Chaucerian text, the canonical poetic figure of Chaucer and Chaucer as biographical subject. In The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer, Derek Pearsall considers Chaucer’s acceptance of the post of Comptroller of the Wool Custom and the Wool Subsidy in June 1374 and comments that Chaucer’s “career shifted decisively away from the immediate environs of the royal court”: the Comptroller’s “job itself was something of a chore and not a usual avenue to promotion for an ambitious squire.” My argument is that this fourteen-year career as a bureaucrat, coming as it does after Chaucer’s earlier periods of military service (1359-60, 1369, 1370) and the years 1366-1378 during which Chaucer undertakes perhaps five diplomatic and trade missions, raises a question about the subjectivity we construct for Chaucer out of the conjunction of public writing and personal history: what might it mean to read a “bureaucratic Chaucer”?
... See ,Jenna Mead, '''. anti-imperialist approaches to Chaucer (are ... more ... See ,Jenna Mead, '''. anti-imperialist approaches to Chaucer (are there those ?)' An Essay in Identifying Strategies," Southern Review, 27, no. 4 (1994), 40.`3-17. '' C'lzaucer: 'Ihe Critiwl Heritage, vols. I and 2, ed. Derek Brewcr ( London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978). ...
... Objective Division: Cultural Understanding. Objective Group: Communication. Objective Field: ... more ... Objective Division: Cultural Understanding. Objective Group: Communication. Objective Field: Communication Across Languages and Culture. Creator: Mead, J (Dr Jenna Mead). ID Code: 43998. Year Published: 2001. Deposited By: English, Journalism and European Languages ...
Publikationsansicht. 38894199. The First Stone : it's all in the pitch (1995). Mead, J. ... more Publikationsansicht. 38894199. The First Stone : it's all in the pitch (1995). Mead, J. Details der Publikation. Download, http://ecite.utas.edu.au/5314. Archiv, UTas eCite RODA Server (University of Tasmania Research Output Digital Asset Repository) (). ...
Jenna Mead i So, let me begin and tell you about Caroline Leakey's body by readi... more Jenna Mead i So, let me begin and tell you about Caroline Leakey's body by reading from the only contemporaneous biographical source. This text situates both its subject and its project in interrogative ways that I will go on to discuss. But for now I want to quote from ...
This edited collection of essays is divided into four parts 'Medieval performers of narrat... more This edited collection of essays is divided into four parts 'Medieval performers of narrative and their art,' 'Medieval performance and the book,' 'Performability and medieval narrative genres' and 'Perspectives from contemporary performers' and combines contributions ...
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