CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor Emeritus of French
2126 Regent Street
Madison, WI 53726 USA
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SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Medieval literature, poetics, and rhetoric, especially in French and Latin
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming [since ca. 1990]:
Books:
The Arts of Poetry and Prose. La Typologie des Sources du Moyen Age Occidental, 59. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1991.
The Art of Medieval French Romance. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Medieval French Romance. Twayne's World Author Series, 838: French Literature Series. New York: Twayne, 1993.
Internal Difference and Meanings in the “Roman de la rose”. Madison, London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.
The Conspiracy of Allusion: Description, Rewriting, and Authorship from Macrobius to Medieval Romance. Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 97. Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, 1999.
Edited Volumes:
The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes, with Norris J. Lacy and Keith Busby. Faux Titre 31, 37.2 vols. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987-88. Includes my: 'The Art of Description,' vol. I, pp. 191-221.
The Medieval Opus: Imitation, Rewriting, and Transmission in the French Tradition. Proceedings of the Symposium Held at the Institute for Research in Humanities October 5-7 1995 The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Faux Titre 116. Amsterdam-Atlanta, GA.: Rodopi, 1996. Includes my “Introduction”, pp. 1-11.
Articles:
“'Diversement comencier' in the Lais of Marie de France,” in In Quest of Marie de France a Twelfth-Century Poet, ed. Chantal A. Maréchal. Medieval and Renaissance Series, 10. Lewiston, NY, Queenston, Lampeter: Edwin Mellon Pr., 1992. Pp. 107-22.
“Image et imagination dans les inventions des poètes: miroir et réceptivité dans les Dits allégoriques,” in L'image au moyen âge, ed. Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok, Actes du Colloque L'Image au moyen âge, 19-23 mars 1986. Wodan: recherches en littérature médiévale 15. Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1992. Pp. 137-49.
“Mirages et miroirs de sources dans le Roman de Troie,” in Le roman antique au moyen âge, Actes du Colloque du Centre d'Etudes Médévales de l'Université de Picardie Amiens 14-15 janvier 1989. Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 549. Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1992. Pp. 101-10.
“Fine amor in Thomas's Tristan,” in Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller: Medieval French and Occitan Literature and Romance Linguistics. Ed. by Rupert T. Pickens. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1993. Pp. 167-80.
“Du narcisse des poètes à la rose des amants: le jeu de la vérité chez Guillaume de Lorris,' in Et c'est la fin pour quoi sommes ensemble: Hommage à Jean Dufournet. Paris: Champion, 1993. Pp. 793-800.
“Titles, Openings, and Adventures in Marie de France's Lays,” in Europäische Literaturen im Mittelalter: Mélanges en l'honneur de Wolfgang Spiewok à l'occasion de son 65ème anniversaire. Ed. Danielle Buschinger. WODAN: Greifswalder Beiträge zum Mittelalter, 30. Greifswald: Reineke, 1994. Pp. 231-39.
“Amitié comme anti-amour: au-delà du fin amour de Jean de Meun à Christine de Pizan.” In Anteros: actes du Colloque de Madison (Wisconsin), mars 1994. Eds. Ullrich Langer and Jan Miernowski. Collection l'Atelier de la Renaissance, 4. Orléans: Editions Paradigme. Pp. 75-97.
“Age and the Ages of Life in the Prose Lancelot,” in The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations, ed. William W. Kibler. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Pp. 51-66.
“Le nom de Perceval.” In Perceval-Parzival hier et aujourd'hui et autres essais sur la littérature allemande du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance. Ed. Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok. WODAN: Greifswalder Beiträge zum Mittelalter/Etudes Médiévales de Greifswald, 48. Ser. 3: Tagungsbände und Sammelschriften/Actes de Colloques et Ouvrages Collectifs, 28. Greifswald: Reineke, 1994. Pp. 123-29.
“Lancelot et Eneas: une analogie dans le Lancelot en prose.” In Lancelot-Lanzelet hier et aujourd'hui: recueil d'articles pour fêter les 90 ans de Alexandre Micha. Ed. Danielle Buschinger et Michel Zink. WODAN: Greifswalder Beiträge zum Mittelalter/Etudes médiévales de Greifswald, ser. 3: Tagungsbände und Sammelschriften/Actes de Colloques et ouvrages collectifs, 29. Greifswald: Reineke, 1995. Pp. 227-32.
“The Invention of Briseida's Story in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Troie,” Romance Philology 48 (1995), 221-41.
“The Domestication of the Marvelous in the Melusine Romances.” In Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France, ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Athens, GA, London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Pp. 32-47.
“Les mutations de Christine de Pizan,” “Ensi firent li ancessor”: Mélanges de philologie médiévale offerts à Marc-René Jung, ed. Luciano Rossi avec Christine Jacob-Hugon et Ursula Bähler. 2 vols. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1996. Vol. II, pp. 599-608.
“The fidus interpres: Aid or Impediment to Medieval Translation and Translatio?” In Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages. Ed. Jeanette Beer. Studies in Medieval Culture 38. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University. Pp. 47-58.
“Guerre et parenté dans le Roman de Troie.” In Entre fiction et histoire: Troie et Rome au moyen âge. Ed. Emmanuèle Baumgartner and Laurence Harf-Lancner. Paris: Presses de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1997. Pp. 53-71.
“Horace et le Roman de Troie de Benoît de Sainte-Maure.” In Miscellanea Mediaevalia: Mélanges offerts à Philippe Ménard. Nouvelle Bibliothèque du moyen âge, 46. 2 vols. Paris: Champion, 1998. Vol. I, pp. 723-31.
“Imitation, Metamorphosis, and Froissart's Use of the Exemplary Modus tractandi.” Froissart across the Genres. Ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox. Gainesville, FL:University Press of Florida, 1998. Pp. 101-18.
“The Scope of Medieval Instruction in the Art of Poetry and Prose: Recent Developments in Documentation and Interpretation.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 6.2 (1998), 49-68.
“The Pledge Motif in Walewein: Original Variant and Rewritten Quest,” in Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch ‘Roman van Walewein’. Arthurian Literature, 17. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1999. Pp. 29-46.
“Forlorn Hope: Mutability Topoi in Some Medieval Narratives,” in The World and Its Rival: Essays on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog. Ed. Kathryn Karczewska and Tom Conley. Faux Titre, 172. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 1999. Pp. 59-77.
“La Rhétorique de la citation dans le roman médiéval.” RLA Romance Languages Annual, 10 (1999), 69-74.
“Perspectives on Women in War in Twelfth-Century Troy,” ’ in Imaginaires du mal, ed. Myriam Watthée-Delmotte and Paul-Augustin Deproost, Transversalités, 1 (Paris: Cerf, Louvain-la-Neuve: Université Catholique de Louvain, 2000), pp. 115-27.
“The Poem as Art of Poetry: The Rhetoric of Imitation in the Grand Chant Courtois.” Medieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context. Illinois Medieval Studies. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. 191-208.
“The Name Topos in the Chevalier aux deux épées,” in “Por la soie amisté”: Essays in honor of Norris J. Lacy. Ed. Keith Busby and Catherine M. Jones. Faux Titre, 183. Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. 257-68.
“The Implications of Age and Aging in the Roman de la rose,” in “Riens ne m’est seur que la chose incertaine”: Etudes sur l’artb d’écrire au Moyen Âge offertes à Eric Hicks par ses élèves, collègues, amies et amis, ed. Jean-Claude Mühlethaler and Denis Billotte, with Alain Corbellari, Marie-Thérèse Bonadonna, and Barnara Wahlen (Geneva: Slatkine, 2001), pp. 91-103.
“Alexander’s Clergie,” in the Medieval French Alexander, ed. Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox, SUNY Series in Medieval Studies (Albany: State University Of New York Press, 2002), pp. 39-55.
“Matière, sens et compilacion dans le Dit de la panthère de Nicole de Margival,” in Das Schöne im Wirklichen – Das Wirkliche im Schönen: Festschrift für Dietmar Rieger zum 60. Geburtstag, ed. Anne Amend-Söchting, Kirsten Dickhaut, Walburga Hülk, Klaudia Knabel, and Gabriele Vickermann, with Bernard Ribémont (Heidelberg: Winter, 2002), pp. 125-34.
‘Interlace and the Cyclic Imagination,’ in A Companion to the ‘Lancelot-Grail Cycle’, ed. Carol Dover, Arthurian Studies, 54 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 55-64.
‘The Martial Arts and the Loss of Decorum in Some Medieval French Narratives: Chrétien’s Perceval, the Prose Lancelot, and Jehan de Saintré,’ in Knight and Samurai: Actions and Images of Elite Warriors in Europe and East Asia, ed. Rosemarie Deist and Harald Kleinschmidt, Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik, 707 (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 2003), pp. 47-59.
Dictionary and Encyclopedia entries:
“Benoît de Sainte-Maure,” 1982: II, 182, “French Literature: Romances,” 1985: V, 283-88, and “John of Garland,” 1986: VII, 133-34, in the Dictionary of the Middle Ages. New York: Scribner's.
“1267 — In Le Livre du trésor Brunetto Latini First Teaches the Art of Writing in the French Language: Medieval Rhetoric,” A New History of French Literature, ed. Denis Hollier (Cambridge, MA, London: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 93-97.
French trans. “1267 — Brunetto Latini insère le Livre du trésor le premier art de rhétorique rédigé en français: la rhétorique médiévale,” De la littérature française. Paris: Bordas, 1992, pp. 93-96.
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, ed. Norris J. Lacy et alii, 2nd ed. (New York, London: Garland, 1991): Alixandre l'Orphelin (p. 5), Brun de la Montagne (p. 57), Calvino, Italo (p. 66), Heldris de Cornuälle (pp. 228-29), Huon de Bordeaux (p. 242), Sone de Nausay (p. 424).
Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, ed. Gert Ueding (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992---). Vol. I: Accessus ad auctores, cols. 27-36; Ars versificatoria, cols. 1071-80. Vol. III: explanatio, cols. 144-49; forma tractandi, cols. 399-403; and gesta, cols. 969-72; Vol. 4: Klassizismus, Klassik. III. Lateinisches Mittelalter, 2. Klassizismus im lateinischen Mittelalter, cols. 994-1000. Vol. V: Laudatio: Mittelalter, col. 56-62.
“Chrétien de Troyes,” in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, ed. William W. Kibler and Grover A. Zinn, associate ed. Lawrence Earp and John Bell Henneman, Jr. Garland Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, vol. 2/Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, 932. New York, London: Garland, 1995, pp. 219-22.
“Literature and Science: Middle Ages,” in Encyclopedia of Literature and Science, ed. Pamela Gossin. Westport, CN, London: Greenwood Press, 2002, pp. 237-40.
Forthcoming:
“Briseida-Criseida-Cressida.” In Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. Eds. Nadia Margolis and Katharina M. Wilson. To be published by Garland, New York.
Chapter on Chrétien de Troyes and that on Thirteenth-Century Verse Romance for the volume The Arthur of the French, to be published by the University of Wales Press, Cardiff. (I wrote the entire Chrétien chapter, and edited all and wrote part of the Verse Romance chapter).
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Relation between medieval Latin and medieval French writing; touch as well on relations among vernaculars, including German, Italian, and Dutch.
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Relation between romance and historical writing; Christine de Pizan’s historical writings.
Do you have any other ideas for themes that might be of broad academic interest to other medievalists?:
Late medieval poetics; Roman de la rose; Christine de Pizan (am completing a book ms. on her notion of ‘opinion’)
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
I don’t know whether, as Emeritus, these would apply to me. However, I would be available in certain cases as an outside reader for Ph.D. students (have done so recently for the following universities: SUNY-Buffalo, Paris-III, Utrecht).
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
I am no longer teaching.
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