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Pedagogy, Violence, and the Subject of Music: Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale and the Ideologies of ‘Song’
Authors: Holsinger Bruce 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
A psalm is sung at home and repeated outdoors; it is learned without effort and retained with delight. A psalm joins those with differences, unites those at odds and reconciles those who have been offended, for who will not concede to him with whom one sings to God in one voice? It is after all a great bond of unity for the full number of people to join in one chorus.
If there is no longer a road from one musical sphere to the other ... this is the phenomenon of a fractured total condition that can no more be settled by the artist’s will than by mere pedagogics or by dictatorial fiat. It sears stigmata into every musical phenomenon.
Analytical Survey i: Literary History and Cultural Study
Authors: Lawton David 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Editorial statement for New Medieval Literatures announces that every issue will carry-in place of reviews-’an analytical survey ... of recent work in an emerging or dominant critical discourse’. The surveys are designed to be useful to specialists and non-specialists alike; they are one person’s view, and therefore polemical; and they will be commissioned from leading international medievalists. Surveys in forthcoming volumes will report on historicisms and psychoanalysis, the relevance of the New Philology in Romance languages, and recent work in art history and theory.
Clockwork Comedy Time and The Alchemist
Authors: Donaldson Ian 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Alchemist, as Coleridge recognized long ago, is one of the world’s most brilliantly plotted plays.1 Its design is cleverer, more intricate, more elegant, more surprising than that of any comedy of Shakespeare; it as cunning as clockwork. The Alchemist may be compared with clockwork in another, more literal, sense too, for the time scheme of the play is organized with extraordinary precision, plotted to the very moment. For most of the characters in the comedy, moreover, time itself is a matter of the deepest consequence, always at the forefront of their consciousness, sharpening their particular ambitions and visions of the world. Time impinges in The Alchemist, as characteristically in Jonson’s comedies, with an urgency and precision rarely encountered in the world of Shakespearian comedy or romance. Even in those plays of Shakespeare in which time is felt to be a matter of great practical or psychological consequence, the formal organization of dramatic time may seem, by Jonsonian standards, to be curiously lax or wayward. Jonson himself was notoriously unimpressed by Shakespeare’s seemingly more casual artistry, as his passing gibes at Shakespeare’s late plays in the Induction to Bartholomew Fair and the Conversations with William Drummond testify. These comments are sometimes taken as evidence of Jonson’s pedantry or of his personal enmity towards Shakespeare. Yet it is worth reflecting on the deeper dramatic logic that may have prompted Jonson’s responses, which ultimately reveal more about his own theatrical practices than about those of his great contemporary.
Ephemera
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THIS section includes only publications by Betjeman—pamphlets, brochures, broad-sides, and the like, but not contributions to books or periodicals—that are shorter than sixteen pages. I have also placed a slighty longer portfolio, Ten Wren Churches (1970), in this section, because it seems to belong here rather than under Books. ¶Betjeman, in his later years, frequently delivered tributes at funerals, and occasionally these tributes were printed in inexpensive copies circulated afterwards to friends. I have included two examples below under 1974 and 1976.
Contributions to Books
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THIS is a broad category including contributions to pamphlets, theatrical programmes, society reports, and other documents as well as books. Except in a few cases, I have excluded anthology reprintings of Betjeman’s writings. A full list of such reprintings might offer a useful picture of his literary reputation, but it would also be an exceptionally large body of material. (Anthologies are, however, well represented in Peter Gammond’s bibliography.) ¶In a few instances of books or pamphlets that are difficult to find, I have indicated the location of the copy examined.
Editorships
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
IN his lifelong search for a more stable income, Betjeman took on the editorship of several magazines and book series. His prolonged association with the Shell Guides is well known, but he was also associated with some less publicly visible projects. Though he served in an honorary capacity on a number of editorial boards of periodicals, I have not treated this category except for the Country Churchman , which he helped found and in which he took an active interest.
Radio
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
I HAVE tried to make this section (and the Televison section below) as comprehensive as possible by including not only programmes which Betjeman wrote himself but also those in which he was one of several contributors as well as a few programmes about him. (I list the latter here rather than in the About Betjeman section, because the programmes about him almost always draw heavily upon archival recordings by Betjeman himself.) Nevertheless, I did find it necessary to draw the line somewhere and have therefore excluded a good deal of material that might possibly have been listed in this section.
Television
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
WHEN television broadcasting was first introduced in Britain on a limited basis before the Second World War, Betjeman received an early introduction to it. Mary Adams, a BBC producer, wrote to him on 21 May 1937, ‘I don’t know whether you have seen the television screen, or whether its problems interest you, but I should very much like you to come up to Alexandra Palace and discuss with us the possibilities of this new medium.’ Betjeman duly paid a visit, and by the 13th of July, Adams had a specific proposal: ‘It occurred to me that it might be possible to give a television programme showing how Guide Books are made. I feel that would be in your line perhaps.
Doubtful Attributions
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
THIS section lists items that have been publicly attributed to Betjeman or that he may have possibly written, but for which no satisfactory evidence of his authorship exists. Many of the attributions were made by Bevis Hillier in the first volume of his biography of Betjeman, frequently on the basis of stylistic similarities; it will be seen that I have chosen to interpret the evidence much more cautiously than Hillier has.
Notes on the Poems
Authors: Peterson William S 
Published: November 2023

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THIS section is an alphabetical list of the drafts and proofs of Betjeman’s poems, accompanied, in many instances, by notes on the date and circumstances of their composition and publication; whenever possible, I have also recorded any remarks made by Betjeman about individual poems. In the case of individual poems first published separately (such as Summoned by Bells ), I have merely provided cross- references to the Books and Ephemera sections, above. ¶The following categories of material are, as a rule, excluded. (1) Betjeman’s verse- epistles and the fragments of poems that crop up in his correspondence. Many of them can be found in Candida Lycett Green’s edition of the Letters and Bevis Hillier’s biography.
Journalism, Scholarship, and the University College London English Department
Authors: Sutherland John 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Grevel Lindop has written about the nourishment which journalism can get from contact with universities and university people (specifically in the literary world around the great Scottish universities in the early nineteenth century).1 I shall approach the same topic from the other side: the stimulus which universities—specifically their English departments—can derive from contact with the world of journalism. I shall do this by sketching the life history of a single English department, that of University College London. As it happens, it is, at 167 years, the oldest such department in England (some would say the world). My chair at UCL was endowed by a newspaper magnate, Lord Northcliffe, whose name is synonymous with twentieth century lower journalism.
Darke Conceits: Churton Collins, Edmund Gosse, and the Professions of Criticism
Authors: Cunningham Valentine 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Among the Christmas presents John Churton Collins received in 1889 was a tribute from a student who was attending one of his many University Extension courses. It was a set of verses called ‘Christmas 1889’, and the kind of knowing fan-letter any teacher of literature might relish: There’s much more in the same vein and, clearly, the pupil has not read his Browning for nothing.
The Times Literary Supplement in the Second World War and How to Fill Some Gaps in Modern British Cultural History
Authors: Treglown Jeremy 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The Times Literary Supplement is among the most important literary journals in the world: catholic in subject-matter and in its responses to the rival claims of innovation and traditionalism, specialism and mass appeal; cosmopolitan; exceptionally durable. For almost a century, despite some critical mistakes and outright omissions, it has reviewed more books more thoroughly than any other paper. Yet to literary historians of the twentieth century the Lit. Supp. —as it was once universally called—might as well have been invisible.
Culture and Acculturation in Manuel Summers’s Del rosa ... al amarillo (I963)
Authors: Martin-Márquez Susan 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
The last few years in Spain have witnessed a flurry of renewed interest in the socialization of children during Francoism. Luis Otero’s deliciously ironic recreation of his own experience of ideological inculcation, Al paso alegre de la paz (1996), became a surprise best seller, leading to the rerelease of his 1987 novel Gris marengo, focused on the education of a Nationalist war martyr’s son. Andrés Sopeña Monsalve’s book of memoirs, El florido pensil: memoria de la escuela nacionalcatólica (1994), which has also enjoyed several reprintings, was quickly adapted for the theatre by the Basque company Tanttaka Teatroa; when this stage version moved on to Barcelona in the summer of 1997, tickets were sold out for nearly every performance.
La vida alegre (Colomo, 1986)
Authors: Fiddian Robin 
Published: November 2023

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LA vida alegre is the seventh full-length feature by Fernando Coloma, whose career as both a director and a producer is closely linked to the phenomenon of the nueva comedia espaiiola of the late 1970s and 198os. Having scripted and directed Tigres de papel in 1977, Coloma produced Opera prima for Fernando Trueba in 1980, and then resumed work directing films of his own including Estoy en crisis (1982) and La línea def cielo (1983), both of which manifest a clearly perceptible ‘intención de humor’.
Derek Mahon, Tom Paulin, and the Lost Tribe
Authors: McDonald Peter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
There is an inexact rule of symmetry in certain kinds of critical overview, by which identities, as they find their cultural expressions, tend to match and answer each other. Thus, if Seamus Heaney is found to represent especially one model of identity in Northern Ireland, which could be called either Irish or Catholic, the full meaning of this representation comes with cultural understanding of the other identity, which might be called either Ulster Scots or Protestant.
The Note Man on the Word Man: Morton Feldman on Composing the Music for Samuel Beckett’s Words and Music in The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays
Authors: Frost Everett 
Published: November 2023

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In undertaking new American radio productions of all of Samuel Beckett’s extant radio plays, Words and Music presented a singular difficulty. The music composed by John Beckett, the author’s cousin, at the time of the play’s conception, was withdrawn soon after the production’s premiere on the BBC in November 1962 (and its subsequent French production, as Paroles et musique), and remains unavailable. But the play cannot be produced without music, since it appears as ‘Bob’, an actual character in the play. As we formulated our plans for The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays, Samuel Beckett reconfirmed to me, as apparently he had to Katharine Worth and other enquirers, that it would be ‘impossible’ for us to use the John Beckett score and that we would therefore have to provide our own. Yet it seemed to me that Beckett had a special fondness for the play and was pleased that it might be revived with what he called a ‘fresh go’. He suggested Morton Feldman as the composer.
That Time: Samuel Beckett and Wolfgang Fortner
Authors: Weber Brigitta 
Published: November 2023

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Wolfgang Fortner ranks amongst the most important German composers of the post-war era. Born in Leipzig in 1907, he grew up with the tradition of church-music associated with the city, the concerts of Hermann Scherchen and the premieres of the Leipzig Opera and, by 1931, he was already appointed as teacher of composition at the newly founded Institute for Church Music in Heidelberg. Both here and at his subsequent places of work in Detmold (1954-7) and Freiburg (1957- 73 ), he established his reputation as one of the most sought-after teachers of composition of his era. After the Second World War, along with Wolfgang Steinecke, Fortner founded the Kranichstein Summer Schools for New Music; from 1964 he conducted the Musica-viva-concerts in Munich as successor to Karl Amadeus Hartmann.
Music in the Works of Samuel Beckett
Authors: Beckett Walter 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
When I was a young boy in the early 1920s, I lived with my family in Foxrock, County Dublin. At that time, Foxrock was a fashionable suburb with a sprinkling of houses, surrounded by countryside. I remember my mother being able to walk through fields to visit Sam’s mother in their house in Kerrymount Avenue. It was more a friendly relationship rather than a close-knit family one. Later in life, both Sam and I were to attend the same school, Portora Royal School in Enniskillen, and later still the University of Dublin, Trinity College, albeit at different times.
The Indifference of the Broiler to the Broiled
Authors: Reynolds Roger 
Published: November 2023

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In 1966, just before leaving for an extended stay in Japan, I saw a production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godotin Minneapolis. I can still recall clearly the rush of excitement by which I was consumed during Lucky’s virtuoso monologue. What stunned me then was the juxtaposition of excess and control that this work manifested. Although it exceeded (exhilaratingly) the boundaries of what I had thought theatrically viable, it was, at the same time, parsimonious, spare and precise in its detail. The uniqueness of its author’s vision was unmistakable.
Shakespeare and the Bible
Authors: Marx Steven 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. Despite the presence of hundreds of Biblical allusions in Shakespeare, this is the first book to explore the pattern and significance of those references in relation to a selection of his greatest plays. It reveals the Bible as a rich source for Shakespeare's uses of myth, history, comedy and tragedy, his techniques of staging, and his ways of characterizing rulers, magicians and teachers in the image of the Bible's multifaceted God. This book also discloses ways in which Shakespeare's plays offer both pious and irreverent interpretations of the Scriptures comparable to those presented by his contemporary writers, artists, philosophers and politicians. After an opening chapter comparing the Bible as a fragmented yet unified collection of 46 books with the fragmented yet unified First Folio collection of Shakespeare's 36 plays, each of the following six chapters matches a book of the Bible with a representative play: the creation myth of Genesis with the first play in the Folio, The Tempest, the historical epic of Exodus with Henry V, the tragedy of Job with King Lear, the tragicomedy of the Gospel of Matthew with Measure for Measure, the homiletic disputation of Paul's Epistle to the Romans with The Merchant of Venice, and the apocalyptic masque of the Book of Revelation with The Tempest again. Though its subject matter and style appeal to a broad audience, this book is grounded in recent scholarship in Shakespeare and Biblical studies. Its intertextual readings are framed by descriptions of the historical circumstances of each work's composition and reception and by an emergent theory of allusion as a principle of creation and understanding.
Ruskin and the Aesthetes
Authors: Shrimpton Nicholas 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Writers on Ruskin sometimes promise that their work will be ‘Ruskinian’, not merely in topic but also in form. It is a claim which can be very variously interpreted. According to one estimate of Ruskin’s literary manner, it means that the argument will be original and imaginative. According to another, it suggests eccentricity, digressiveness, and internal self-contradiction. My approach to the problem of Ruskin’s relationship to Aestheticism will not seek to be (for good or ill) Ruskinian. But it will share a characteristic with the work of another Victorian writer, Robert Browning. Browning’s poem The Ring and the Book was issued in monthly parts between November 1868 and February 1869, and revised for book publication in 1872. The most salient formal feature of Browning’s poem is, of course, that it tells the same story eleven times.
Myth and Gender in Ruskin’s Science
Authors: Aronofsky Weltman Sharon 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
In Love’s Meinie (1873–81), Proserpina (1875–86), and Deucalion (1875–83), John Ruskin creates an alternative science. Critics have rightly noted that Ruskin’s natural history is old-fashioned, mythic, and opposed to some of the greatest scientific innovators of his time, such as Charles Darwin and John Tyndall.1 However, his mythological approach to knowledge has one surprisingly radical side-effect: he feminizes science.
Marianne Moore and China
Authors: Stamy Cynthia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Marianne Moore's poetry offers an extraordinarily rich site from which to analyse a tradition of American orientalism which focused upon China. Marianne Moore and China examines why she chose to participate in that tradition and analyses why her borrowing of Chinese models of all kinds - from poetry to painting and philosophy - was so critical to the formation of her verse. Moore's poetry is part of a long tradition of satirical critique in orientalist writing which finds its roots in English literature. In the early twentieth century, this tradition of critique in orientalist prose was adopted by American poets, who borrowed Far Eastern poetic models to permanently transform the ways in which poetry in English was being written by launching a literary assault upon what they saw as outmoded methods of versification. Moore used the Far East to express her own dissatisfaction with contemporary trends in the writing of poetry, and embraced the more ancient culture of China as a means of resisting the American habit of looking to Europe as a singular source of cultural tradition 'at home'. Moore employed features of the ancient Chinese fu technique in her poems and used images of Chinese supernatural creatures in an effort to establish an alternative to logic and narrative linearity and to facilitate the moral didacticism for which her poetry is known. Moore's use of Chinese painting theory and philosophy in the creation of her poems enabled her to explore alternatives to Western perspectival principles and to Western ways of narrating visual experience. Marianne Moore and China also examines the ways in which Chinese linguistic features provide Moore with models for her compound nouns and syntactical ellipses, and gathers evidence to show that her abiding concerns for precision, brevity and restraint have both Confucian and Puritan antecedents. Additionally, this book analyses the degree to which her collection of quotations, from which she fashions so many of her poems, and her citation of them in numerous appended notes, are complicit in the same process of acquisition and display which characterizes the activity of the museum, the preoccupations of the curio-collector, and the pursuit of minute detail in orientalist discourse generally. Moore's consistent ingenuity in employing Chinese forms and methods makes her work a particularly fruitful source for investigating orientalism and its contribution to modern poetry.
Precision, Perspective, and the Harnessing of Silence
Authors: Stamy Cynthia 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Marianne Moore, like William Carlos Williams and Henry James, wanted in her youth to become a painter. Her poems display a penetrating and attentive visual sense augmented by a sensitivity to colour and the proximal relations and interactions of the various subjects in her compositions. Painterly verbiage appears repeatedly throughout her poetry and prose, with particular references alluding to matters of style and execution in Chinese art and art generally. Books on oriental rugs and carpets, Chinese bronzes, Chinese theories of art, museum bulletins on Chinese stele and prints, as well as gallery and auction catalogues on Chinese porcelains, jades, bronzes, textiles, fans, pottery, and sculpture make up a significant portion of Moore’s library holdings.
Quotation, Curio-Collecting, and the Privileging of Detail
Authors: Stamy Cynthia 
Published: November 2023

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Moore’s efforts to translate the peculiarities of Chinese poetry and painting into a personal method of writing can be seen as an attempt to interpret America through a poetic reconciliation with an alien world and its curiosities. Her use of the fu technique, Chinese perspectival principles, symbology, and philosophy all indicate that she looked to the Far East for models and ideas with which both to resist logic and contemporary trends in poetry, and to embrace the enduring nature of an ancient civilization and the clarity of its decisive moral framework.
Introduction
Authors: Orth John V 
Published: November 2023

Abstract
Ever since ‘Adam delved and Eve span’ the world has faced the problem of work. Whether all able-bodied persons must work, whether those in work are entitled to the whole produce of their labour, whether those willing and able to work have a right to do so-the answers to these questions have shaped society from earliest times to the present. They have prompted searching inquiries into the nature of work as well as into its corollary, leisure.