Iterative Circulation in Chaucer: Medieval Contexts of Seriality
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Eva von Contzen
Abstract
The idea of serial circulation is difficult to reconcile with the realities of medieval practices of text production before the advent of printing. Rather than dismissing the concept altogether, however, this article considers both seriality and circulation as productive categories for analyzing medieval literature. Focusing on Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales, I argue that medieval poets were attuned to ‘serial thinking’, which manifested itself in repetition as a key formal feature of medieval literature. I introduce the concept of ‘iterative circulation’ as an alternative approach to forms of seriality and circulation within and across medieval literary works. Using the “Knight’s Tale” and the “Franklin’s Tale” as my examples, I demonstrate the usefulness of iterative circulation, which brings to the fore the fraught relationship between causality and seriality in the “Knight’s Tale”, and the tension between different kinds of rhythm in the “Franklin’s Tale”.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Preliminary Remarks
- Introducing Serial Circulation: Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities
- Iterative Circulation in Chaucer: Medieval Contexts of Seriality
- Medieval Modes of Reading: The Circulation Culture of Late Middle English Romances from William Caxton’s Press
- “In a course of publications”: Seriality, Public Recognition, and Judith Sargent Murray’s The Gleaner (1792–1798)
- The Laughing Mrs. Churchill: Longfellow’s Kavanagh (1849) and the Earliest Anglo-American Mathematics Journals
- “Life-like Delineations of Real Life”: Illustrating Wilfred Montressor; Or, The Secret Order of the Seven, a New York City Mystery of 1846
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Preliminary Remarks
- Introducing Serial Circulation: Print Cultures and Periodical Modernities
- Iterative Circulation in Chaucer: Medieval Contexts of Seriality
- Medieval Modes of Reading: The Circulation Culture of Late Middle English Romances from William Caxton’s Press
- “In a course of publications”: Seriality, Public Recognition, and Judith Sargent Murray’s The Gleaner (1792–1798)
- The Laughing Mrs. Churchill: Longfellow’s Kavanagh (1849) and the Earliest Anglo-American Mathematics Journals
- “Life-like Delineations of Real Life”: Illustrating Wilfred Montressor; Or, The Secret Order of the Seven, a New York City Mystery of 1846
- Circulating Superheroes in City Mystery Novels: Prefigurations of a Popular Serial Figure
- The Experiment of Condensed Fiction in the Review of Reviews
- Erasure and Seriality: The “Serial Attitude” in A Humument and Tree of Codes
- Power the Dark Lord Knows Not: The Fractal Serialities of Fanfiction
- Reviews
- Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson (eds.). 2023. Literature and the Senses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xix + 544 pp., 20 illustr., $ 155.
- Martin Procházka (ed.). 2024. From Shakespeare to Autofiction: Approaches to Authorship after Barthes and Foucault. London: UCL Press, 207 pp., 10 figures, £40.00.
- Irmtraud Huber. 2023. Time and Timelessness in Victorian Poetry. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, viii + 288 pp., £ 95.00.
- Arnaud Schmitt (ed.). 2024. Hybridity in Life Writing: Combining Text and Images. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, xii + 296 pp., 20 figures, CHF 177.00.
- Richard Müller (ed.). 2024. The Emerging Contours of the Medium: Literature and Mediality. Thinking Media. New York, NY: Bloomsbury, xvi + 501 pp., 17 figures, 4 illustrations, 4 tables, 4 diagrams, £ 90.00.
- Yvonne Reddick. 2024. Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment, and Planet. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, xiii + 389 pp, € 139.09.
- Ann Rea (ed.). 2024. Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage: Spying Undercover(s). London/New York: Bloomsbury, xi + 235 pp., £ 85.00.
- Susan E. Kirtley. 2021. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 268 pp., 59 illustrations, $134.95.
- Matthew Scully. 2024. Democratic Anarchy: Aesthetics and Political Resistance in U. S. Literature. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 256 pp., 5 illustr., $ 125.00.
