Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalisms: Time Mechanics

✍ Scribed by David Hadbawnik (editor)

• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 220
• Series: New Queer Medievalisms; 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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This volume builds on recent scholarship on contemporary poetry in relation to medieval literature, focusing on postmodern poets who work with the medieval in a variety of ways. Such recent projects invert or “queer” the usual transactional nature of engagements with older forms of literature, in which readers are asked to exchange some small measure of bewilderment at archaic language or forms for a sense of having experienced a medieval text. The poets under consideration in this volume demand that readers grapple with the ways in which we are still “medieval” – in other words, the ways in which the questions posed by their medieval source material still reverberate and hold relevance for today’s world. They do so by challenging the primacy of present over past, toppling the categories of old and new, and suggesting new interpretive frameworks for contemporary and medieval poetry alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Opening of the Field
“A Real Fictional Depth”: Transtexuality & Transformation in Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe
A Basket of Fire and the Laughter of God: Anne Sexton’s Queer Theopoetics
Feeld Notes: Jos Charles’s Chaucerian “anteseedynts”
The Time Mechanic and the Theater: Translation, Performativity, and Performance in the Old English of Karen Coonrod’s Judith, W.H. Auden, and Thomas Meyer
Translation for the End Times: Peter O’Leary’s The Sampo
The Harlot and the Gygelot: Translation, Intertextuality, and Theft in Medbh McGuckian’s “The Good Wife Taught her Daughter”
Queer Time, Queer Forms: Noir Medievalism and Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales
Speak Like a Child: Caroline Bergvall’s Medievalist Trilogy
Index