Reading list for ENGL21022 Medieval Metamorphoses

Medieval Metamorphoses

ENGL21022 (Dr Anke Bernau)

 

 

Primary:

(Some more primary texts may be added – this will be indicated in advance of the start of the course and will be reflected in the course reader.)

 

Note: A course booklet will be provided for everything except Ovid and Henryson. Henryson is available from TEAMS online (see details below): this text should be printed out and brought to the seminars. (TIP: Selected ‘smallest size’ from ‘View’ before printing.)

 

1) Ovid, Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation, trans. David Raeburn (London:     Penguin,

                2004). [please ensure you have access to a copy for the duration of the semester].

2) Ovid, Heroides [extracts; course booklet]

3) Geoffrey Chaucer, 'Manciple’s Prologue and Tale' [course booklet];

4) Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women [course booklet];

5) Robert Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice [TEAMS online].

6) John Gower, [extracts from] Confessio Amantis [course booklet, except story of Medea];

7) John Lydgate, [extract from] Temple of Glass [course booklet];

 

TEAMS Middle English Texts online: These are online editions of Middle English Texts. They are listed alphabetically, and often have excellent Introductions.

You will find Henryson’s Orpheus and Eurydice here (as well as Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Lydgate’s Temple of Glas).

 

Ø  TEAMS Middle English Texts Online:

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/tmsmenu.htm#h

 

Ø  Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice:

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orphfram.htm

 

Ø  Gower, Confessio Amantis, Bk. V:

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/cav3b5fr.htm

 

Primary Texts: Bibliographical Details:

 

·         Chaucer, Geoffrey, 'The Manciple’s Prologue and Tale', from The Canterbury Tales, in  The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 282-86.

·         Chaucer, Geoffrey, 'The Legend of Hypsipyle and Medea', from Legend of Good Women , in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 614-17.

·         Chaucer, Geoffrey, 'The Legend of Ariadne', from Legend of Good Women , in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 620-24.

·         Chaucer, Geoffrey, 'The Legend of Philomela', from Legend of Good Women , in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 624-26.

·         Gower, John,  [Book III],  Confessio Amantis. Vol. 2, ed. by Russell A. Peck, The Middle English Texts Series (TEAMS) (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003).

·         Gower, John,  [Book V], Confessio Amantis. Vol. 3, ed. by Russell A. Peck, with Latin trans. by Andrew Galloway,  The Middle English Texts Series (TEAMS) (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2004).

·         Henryson, Robert,  Orpheus and Eurydice , edited by Robert L. Kindrick [Originally Published in The Poems of Robert Henryson, ed. Kindrick (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997)]. Available at: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orphfram.htm

·         Lydgate, John, The Temple of Glas, ed. by J. Schick, Early English Text Society, e.s. 60 (London, 1891; repr. Millwood, N.Y.: Kraus, 1975).  [For useful notes and glosses, see also the TEAMS edition: ed. by J. Allan Mitchell [Originally Published in John Lydgate, The Temple of Glas, ed. by Mitchell (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007)]. Available at: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/matgfrm.htm

·         Ovid, Metamorphoses: A New Verse Translation, trans. by David Raeburn (London: Penguin, 2004).

 

 

Secondary:

ñ  Allen, Elizabeth, False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

ñ  Amsler, Mark, 'Rape and Silence: Ovid's Mythography and Medieval Readers', in Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, ed. by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001), pp. 61-96.

ñ  Bakalian, Ellen, Aspects of Love in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis (London: Routledge, 2004). [on Medea, see pp. 85-100].

ñ  Beidler, Peter G. (ed.), John Gower's Literary Transformations in the Confessio Amantis (Washington, D.C.: University  Press of America, 1982).

ñ  Bynum, Caroline Walker, Metamorphosis and Identity (New York: Zone Books, 2001).

ñ  Calabrese, Michael A., Chaucer's Ovidian Arts of Love (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994).

ñ  Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination in Medieval Europe , ed. Leo Carruthers (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

ñ  Chance, Jane (ed.), The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1990).

ñ  Chance, Jane, The Mythographic Chaucer: The Fabulation of Sexual Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

ñ  Clark, James G., Frank T. Coulson and Kathryn L. McKinley, Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

ñ  Cooper, H., ‘Chaucer and Ovid: A Question of Authority’, in Ovid Renewed, ed. C. Martindale (Cambridge, 1988), pp. 71-81.

ñ  Coulson, Frank Thomas, Ovid in the Middle Ages (2011).

ñ  Coulson, Frank Thomas, ‘The “Vulgate” Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses’, in Ovid in Medieval Culture, ed. Marilynn Desmond, special issue of Mediaevalia (1987), 29-61.

ñ  Coulson, Frank T. (ed.), The “Vulgate” Commentary on Ovid’s Metamorphoses: The Creation Myth and the Story of Orpheus (Centre for Medieval Studies by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991).

ñ  Denny-Brown, Andrea and Lisa H. Cooper (eds), Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

ñ  Ebin, Lois, Illuminator, Makar, Vates: Visions of Poetry in the Fifteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988).

ñ  Echard, Sîan (ed.),  A Companion to Gower (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004).

ñ  Edmondson, George, The Neigbouring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011).

ñ  Ellis, Steve (ed.), Chaucer: An Oxford Guide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

ñ  Enterline, Lynne, The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

ñ  Fumo, Jamie Claire, 'Thinking Upon the Crow: The Manciple’s Tale and Ovidian Mythography', The Chaucer Review, 38.4 (2004), 355-75.

ñ  Ginsberg, Warren, ' “Ovidius Ethicus? Ovid and the Medieval Commentary Tradition', in Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer, ed. by Cynthia Gravlee and James J. Paxson (London: Associated University Presses, 1998), pp. 62-71.

ñ  Grady, Frank, and Andrew Galloway, Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (Ohio State University Press, 2013).

ñ  Gravlee, Cynthia  and James J. Paxson (eds), Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer (London: Associated University Presses, 1998).

ñ  Hagedorn, Suzanne C., Abandoned Women: Rewriting the Classics in Dante, Boccaccio, and Chaucer (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004).

ñ  Hardie, Philip (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ovid (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

ñ  Karras, Ruth Mazo, Sexuality in Medieval Europe, 2^nd edn (London: Routledge, 2012).

ñ  Kay, Sarah, The Place of Thought : The Complexity of One in Late Medieval French Didactic Poetry (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

ñ  Keith, Alison and S. Rupp (eds), Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Toronto, 2007)

ñ  Kiser, Lisa .J., Telling Classical Tales: Chaucer and the Legend of Good Women (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983).

ñ  Martindale, C.A. (ed.), Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

ñ  Meyer-Lee, Robert, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).

ñ  Morse, Ruth, Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

ñ  Morse, Ruth, The Medieval Medea (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996).

ñ   Nolan, Maura,  John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

ñ  Oakley Brown, Liz, Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England book (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).

ñ  Paxson, J., and C. Gravlee (eds), Desiring Discourse: The Literature of Love, Ovid through Chaucer (Selinsgrove, PA, 1998).

ñ  Robertson, Elizabeth Ann, and Christine M. Rose, Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001.

ñ  Sadlek, Gregory .M., Idleness Working: The Discourse of Love's Labor from Ovid through Chaucer and Gower (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2004).

ñ  Salzman-Mitchell, Patricia B., A Web of Fantasies: Gaze, Image, and Gender in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005.

ñ  Saunders, Corinne, Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2001).

ñ  Scanlon, Larry,  ‘Lydgate’s Poetics: Laureation and Domesticity in the Temple of Glass ‘, in Larry Scanlon and James Simpson (eds.), John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006), pp. 61-97.

ñ  Simpson, James, Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's 'Anticlaudianus' and John Gower's 'Confessio amantis' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

ñ  Simpson, James and Larry Scanlon (eds), John Lydgate: Poetry, Culture, and Lancastrian England (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).

ñ  Martindale, Charles (ed.), Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

ñ  Warner, Marina,  Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).