Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Poetics
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Joshua Davies
About this book
Caroline Bergvall’s celebrated trilogy of interdisciplinary medievalist texts and projects—Meddle English (2011), Drift (2014), and Alisoun Sings (2019)—documents methods of reading and making that are poetically and politically alert, critically and culturally aware, linguistically attuned, and historically engaged.
Drawing on the wide-ranging body of criticism dedicated to Bergvall’s work and material from Bergvall’s archive, together with newly commissioned texts by scholars, theorists, linguists, translators, and poets, this book situates the trilogy in relation to key themes including mixed temporalities; interdisciplinarity and performance; art and activism; and the geopolitical, psychosexual, and social complexities of subjectivity. It follows routes laid down by the trilogy to move between the medieval past and our contemporary moment to uncover new forms of encounter and exchange.
Author / Editor information
Joshua Davies is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the Department of English at King’s College London and published Visions and Ruins: Cultural Memory and the Untimely Middle Ages in 2018.
--- Contributor: Caroline BergvallCaroline Bergvall, Global Professorial Fellow, Queen Mary University London, is an award-winning poet, artist, and performer. She has an interdisciplinary practice, working across artforms, media, and languages in a wide range of contexts.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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FOREWORD
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INTRODUCTION
1 - Part 1 MEDDLE ENGLISH
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Chapter 1 A VERITABLE DOLLMINE
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Chapter 2 MEDDLE ENGLISH
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Chapter 3 “LET’S DO A GERTRUDE STEIN ON IT” CAROLINE BERGVALL AND ITERATIVE POETICS
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Chapter 4 INVENTIVE REWORKINGS: TRANSFORMATION AND TRANSLATION IN CAROLINE BERGVALL’S MEDDLE ENGLISH
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Chapter 5 MIDDEN, TRASH, AND GARBAGE: THE DISCOURSE OF DEBRIS IN BERGVALL’S “THE FRANKER TALE (DEUS HIC, 2)”
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Chapter 6 TRANSLATIVE BERGVALL, OR THE WORK OF TRANSLATION
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Chapter 7 ALL AT SEA
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Chapter 8 DRIFT
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Chapter 9 CAROLINE BERGVALL’S DRIFT
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Chapter 10 GIVING A SYNTAX TO THE CRY: CAROLINE BERGVALL’S DRIFT
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Chapter 11 FORENSIC LISTENING: M. NOURBESE PHILIP’S ZONG!, CAROLINE BERGVALL’S DRIFT, AND THE CONTEMPORARY LONG POEM
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Chapter 12 DRIFTING INTO THE FOG: THE OPACITY OF THE PAST IN CAROLINE BERGVALL’S DRIFT
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Chapter 13 ALISOUN SINGS
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Chapter 14 COLLECTIVE POESY: THE DISRUPTIVE PLEASURES OF CAROLINE BERGVALL’S ALISOUN SINGS
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Chapter 15 ALISOUNATION
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Chapter 16 ALISOUN’S FRIENDS: CAROLINE BERGVALL’S COMMUNITY OF ALISOUNS
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Chapter 17 OLD LANGUAGE IS DREDGED UP A NEW
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Chapter 18 ALISOUN AFTER ALISOUN
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Chapter 19 “A HAPPY COMBIMESS, SIMPEL” FORMS OF ACTIVISM AND COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE IN ALISOUN SINGS
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Chapter 20 BERGVALL’S MEDDLING AND “BRUSH UP YOUR CHAUCER”
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Chapter 21 “DREAM #1” BY CAROLINE BERGVALL, INTERPRETED-TRANSLATED, WITH A NOTE
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Chapter 22 PARABLE
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Chapter 23 LE NON CONTE (FUNÉRAILLES)
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Chapter 24 IN ARBORESCENCE
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Chapter 25 AIRBORNE
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Chapter 26 WEATHER SYSTEMS
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Chapter 27 INTERVIEW WITH SUSAN RUDY (2010)
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Chapter 28 INTERVIEW WITH EVA HEISLER (2016)
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Chapter 29 INTERVIEW WITH GREG NISSAN (2019)
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AFTERWORD
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BERGVALL’S MEDIEVALIST TRILOGY
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