Dame Philology’s Charrette: Approaching Medieval Textuality through Chrétien’s Lancelot: Essays in Memory of Karl D. Uitti

Edited by Gina L. Greco and Ellen M. Thorington
2012 | 268 + xvi pp. | 2 ills. | Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 978-0-86698-456-0 | MRTS 408
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This volume, written in memory of Karl D. Uitti of Princeton University, brings together essays that use the Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot) by Chrétien de Troyes as a starting point for an exploration of different approaches to medieval texts. Whether inspired by the poem itself, by experimental approaches resulting from study of the poem, or by work resulting from the digital Charrette Project, these essays illustrate that key debates surrounding Chrétien’s text continue to invite critical attention. The volume demonstrates the ways in which complimentary methodologies can expand our appreciation of medieval textuality and tradition.

Table of Contents

  • Gina L. Greco, Portland State University and Ellen M. Thorington, Ball State University— Introduction

  • Peter Dembowski, University of Chicago—The Sens of the Charrette: A General Introduction to the Charrette Poem and its Significance

  • John V. Fleming, Princeton University—Intimations of Ambiguity in Some Initial Images of the Chevalier de la Charrette

  • Lori Walters, Florida State University—Holy Adultery: The Charrette, Crusader Queens, and the Guiot Manuscript (Paris, BNF fr. 794)

  • Douglas Kelly, University of Wisconsin—Chrétien’s Lancelot Rewritten: From the Charrette to Rigomer in Manuscript and Narrative Cycle

  • Grace Morgan Armstrong, Bryn Mawr College—Crossed Swords: Le Chevalier de la Charrette and La Queste del Saint Graal

  • Ellen M. Thorington, Ball State University—Rhyme, Reason, and Poetic Technique in Chrétien’s Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot)

  • Christiane Marchello-Nizia, ENS Lettres et Sciences humaines, UMR 5191 ‘ICAR’, Lyon and Alexei Lavrentiev, ENS Lettres et Sciences humaines, Lyon—The Development of the Demonstrative Determiner CE in the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot or Le Chevalier de la Charrette

  • Robert Hollander, Princeton University—The ‘East Pyne Consortium’ in the Days Before the Charrette Project: A Brief Memoi

  • Gina L. Greco, Portland State University—A Conjointure of Philology and Literary Theory: Early Visions of the Charrette Project

  • Cinzia Pignatelli, Université de Poitiers, Centre d’études supérieures de Civilisation médiévale de Poitiers—Philological Perspectives on the Textual Corpus of the Charrette Project: A Rereading of the Transcriptions

  • Rafael C. Alvarado, University of Virginia—Figuring the Data in a Database of Figures

  • Juliet O’Brien, The University of British Columbia—Reading (and) Courtly Love in Flamenca, via the Charrette

  • Katherine A. Brown, Princeton University—Inversion and Parody: Generic Implications of the Digitization of Old French Fabliaux

  • Matthieu Boyd, Harvard University and K. Sarah-Jane Murray, Baylor University—Jumping Off the Cart: the Future of Charrette Studies