At 15:45 07.02.99 PST, you wrote:
>>Well, Robertson's quite controversial among literary folk, especially
> postmodern types--something about authority, I believe. But even if
> he doesn't entirely convince, he's much more interesting than most of
> his detractors.
>
>Thanks to Jim Kerbaugh.
>
>I'm quite out of the loop, but Robertson's credentials & reputation would
seem
>to be confirmed & safe with a passle of "postmodern type"
>detractors.
>He's probably not in favor with the Semioticists, either, which would clinch
>it.
Dear Jim and Christopher,
Although Robertson's work is closely related to my own research, I have to
confess that somehow I have not yet read any of his publications. Yet it
seems that his way of adapting methods of medieval biblical exegesis for
the interpretation of medieval literature (Piers Plowman, Chaucer, works of
French courtly literature) was fairly controversial already in in his own
time, even before "postmodern types" were around. My notes -- based mostly
on Christel Meier, "U"berlegungen zum gegenwa"rtigen Stand der
Allegorie-Forschung", _Fru"hmittelalterliche Studien_ 10 (1976), p.1-69,
p.8 n.30 -- refer me to:
DE BRUYNE Edgar
Etudes d'e/sthe/tique me/die/vale, Bruges 1946,
(= Rijksuniversiteit te Gent, 97-99), t.II, p.330ss.
BLOOMFIELD Morton W.
Symbolism in Medieval Literature. In: id., Essays and Explo-
rations: Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature. Cam-
bridge (Mass.): Harvard UP, 1970, zuvor in: Modern Philology
56 (1958/59), p.73-81
UTLEY Francis L.
Robertsonianism Redivivus. In: Romance Philology 19 (1965),
250-260
TUVE Rosemond
Allegorical Imagery. Some Medieval Books and their Posteri-
ty. Princeton: UP, 1966, p.217ss.
BEICHNER Paul E.
The Allegorical Interpretation of Medieval Literature. In:
PMLA 82 (1967), p.33-38
FRAPPIER Jean
Amour courtois et Table Ronde. Gene\ve: Droz, 1973 (= Publi-
cations romanes et franc,aises, 126), p.61ss.
Best,
Otfried
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