Exemplaria

16/03/2024

Check out our fabulous new issue 36.1, with research essays by Yunah Kae, Daniel Sokolov, Philip Lavender, and Connie Scozzaro, and book review essays by Sarah Kay and Paul Michael Johnson:

Volume 36, Issue 1 of Exemplaria

01/08/2020

11/04/2017

EXEMPLARIA is proud to announce the winners of this years' AL & JUDY SHOAF AWARD, given to the best essays published in the journal over the past two years.

The winning essays are:

• Daniel Birkholz, “Histoire Imparfaite: Gilote et Johane and the Counterfactual Lessons of Harley 2253” and

• Charlie Samuelson, “The Beast That Therefore Chrétien Is: The Poetics, Logic, and Ethics of Beastliness in Yvain”

Both essays appeared in EXM 27.4 (Winter 2015). And both will be available on the Taylor & Francis/Exemplaria website for a period of one year.

Congratulations, Dan and Charlie!

29/03/2017

The Symposium Program is up on the University of Texas, English Department website: http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/english/events/43826

29/03/2017

Coming on Friday, March 31--the Second Symposium, live on YouTube:
http://bit.ly/exm-live

Exemplaria is a journal of theory in medieval and renaissance studies. Published quarterly. Here you will find videos of the panels at our symposiums.

12/03/2017

The Exemplaria Symposium at UT is only weeks away. It begins each day at 10 am and is FREE and OPEN to the public. Schedule to be published soon.

28/01/2017

There's a groundswell of calls for a new Siri-inspired temporary subtitle for EXM: "Pink Eggs and Play Area." A little obscure, perhaps, but these are desperate times. H/t Jonathan Hsy; Bruce Holsinger.

22/08/2016

*Attention*Attention*Attention*

Don't forget: Submission deadline is September 1st. We know you don't need more things on your "To Do" list, but this is worth it!

"The Way We Do Theory Now," scheduled for Spring of 2017 in Austin, TX. We will investigate "The Way We Do Theory Now." If you have thoughts, projects, readings, provocative claims, etc. on what counts as / for theory in the 21st century, submit an abstract to [email protected]. Deadline for submissions September 1, 2016. (Please use "symposium proposal" in the email subject line.)

15/07/2016

Just coming off an extraordinary New Chaucer Society meeting (thanks to all the organizers!), and full of excitement for the field. Her's another exciting opportunity for work on nature and ecology. EXM roundtable at next year's Kalamazoo. Submit proposals to Shannon Gayk:

“Nature vs. Ecology”
A Roundtable Discussion Sponsored by Exemplaria
International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 11-14, 2017
Ecocritical work in medieval studies has increasingly followed the lead of romanticist Timothy Morton in avoiding discussion of "nature" in favor of "ecology." For Morton, the term "nature," has been a stumbling block to ecological thinking. He suggests that to refer to "nature" is to reify the nonhuman world, to keep it at a distance, while to speak of "ecology" requires acknowledging that humans are deeply enmeshed in relationships with other organisms. Yet, to speak of "nature" (or natura or kynde) in premodern Europe was to invoke a massive range of discourses - scientific, philosophical, allegorical, theological - many of which represent the relationships of human beings to the nonhuman world as complex, participatory, and entangled. This roundtable will investigate both the possibilities and limitations of the turn toward "ecology without nature" in medieval studies, considering the extent to which nature might remain a useful category for understanding medieval representations of the environment. Papers might consider some of the following questions: what exactly is gained and lost when medievalists focus on ecology rather than nature? To what degree if any does it make sense to advocate for "nature without ecology"? We invite proposals for 10-12 minute papers that reflect on the methodological and theoretical stakes of our terminologies. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Shannon Gayk at [email protected].

07/06/2016

*Attention*Attention*Attention*: CFP alert!
Open call: EXEMPLARIA is hosting a Symposium, "The Way We Do Theory Now," scheduled for Spring of 2017 in Austin, TX. We will investigate "The Way We Do Theory Now." If you have thoughts, projects, readings, provocative claims, etc. on what counts as / for theory in the 21st century, submit an abstract to [email protected]. Deadline for submissions September 1, 2016. (Please use "symposium proposal" in the email subject line.)

06/06/2016

Hello, Facebook friends!

We have, this year, cleared all our backlog of accepted essays, so now is a very good time to submit your recent work to Exemplaria! Accepted essays in 2016-2017 should appear in print relatively quickly!

Submit, Submit, Submit!!

19/02/2016

The Editors of Exemplaria are thrilled to congratulate our Book Review Editor, Robert Mills, whose book, *Seeing So**my in the Middle Ages* (Chicago) has just been awarded the R. Gapper Book Prize from The Society for French Studies! The Prize will be presented to Dr Mills at the next Society for French Studies annual conference, which takes place at the University of Glasgow on 27 – 29 June 2016.

The jury describes the winning book as follows: "This is an astonishing and beautiful book, the work of an art historian who focuses first on images, then on the texts with which they are often paired, then spins out the implications of the medieval artefact to consider such questions as transgender time, the Ovide moralisé, the s*x lives of monks, virginity as a s*xual orientation, and a novel by Ali Smith. Mills is uniquely suited to the text: an art historian, literary scholar, and theoretical wizard, who offers a revisioning of medieval material in the light of twenty-first century theory. The volume opens, somewhat disarmingly, with discussion of an image of St Jerome in a dress. This single image, lavishly described, offers a way in to thinking about gender and s*xuality in the Middle Ages with imaginative apprehension and scholarly grit. This is a book which points toward the future, tells a new story, and opens paths for scholars to come."

Congratulations, Bob! Yay.

02/11/2015

A hearty and happy congratulations to Debapriya Sarkar, whose essay “‘Sad Experiment’ in Paradise Lost: Epic Knowledge and Evental Poetics,” which appeared in Exemplaria, 26.4 (Winter 2014), was selected by judges Susan McHugh and Blake Leland as the winner of the 2015 Schachterle Essay Prize from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).

11/08/2015

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Technologies of Reading: The Learned Clerk and the Digital Turn
Roundtable session sponsored by Exemplaria
Organized by Sylvia Federico and James Clark
Kalamazoo 2016

We seek to further the conversation started at the Symposium (The Learned Clerk and the Digital Turn held at Bates College in July 2015 http://learnedclerk.bates.edu). How might we analyze and understand, especially through theoretical engagement, the possibilities and challenges afforded by computational approaches to manuscript study? In medieval studies, the emphasis of digital scholarship to date has been on the creation of digital surrogates of primary material (either the digitization of major categories of manuscripts [e.g., the Royal Manuscripts at the British Library] or of canonical texts, [e.g., the Beowulf manuscript or the Hengwrt manuscript of the Canterbury Tales]). This approach contrasts with efforts in the field of early modern studies, where the emphasis has been on the creation of large-scale searchable resources (such as the Text Creation Partnership corpus).

Digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts have made it easier for scholars and for the wider public to explore manuscripts as evidence for all aspects of the literature, history, art, and culture of the middle ages. This development is typically hailed as a democratization of the library. Yet some negative consequences are also evident: The availability of digital surrogates has led libraries and archives to adopt more stringent rules for consulting original manuscripts. To what extent does this render the medieval manuscript as a disembodied image, disconnected from its material characteristics as a highly crafted artifact, a physical object intended to appeal to all the senses?

This roundtable provides an occasion to think critically about the paradigm shift (from manuscript to digital) often hailed as simply innovative as a set of changes in our reading and writing. At a meta-critical level, how should this shift be theorized? How should we best understand acts of reading of manuscripts and their digital surrogates by humans and / or machines in specific textual, institutional, or archival environments? How do those acts of reading relate to composition, compilation, editing, or disseminatation? How might literary and cultural theories (feminist, deconstructive, q***r, disability, Marxist, historicist), or theories of reading and writing (including those drawn from cognitive, behavioral, social and computer sciences), be brought to bear on this situation? How might it change our narratives of literary production and the textual productions (i.e. editions) that we make?

Papers given will be considered eligible for publication in a special issue of Exemplaria edited by Sylvia Federico & James Clark. Abstracts and queries to [email protected].

A Symposium at Bates College: 9-10 July 2015 The Learned Clerk Symposium brings together leading scholars in the fields of medieval literature and history, editing and manuscript studies, and digital humanities, whose research variously engages the forms and modes of late medieval textual culture. …

16/07/2015

It's a triple threat! Tison Pugh's recent book, also appearing from Ohio State's, Interventions series.

16/07/2015

Our editors have been busy. Don't forget to check out editor, Elizabeth Scala's new book out from the Ohio State University Press. https://ohiostatepress.org/index.htm?books/book%20pages/scala-canterbury.html

We are the publishers of several hundred book titles and five journals. Our academic publications include books in political science, history (including the history of crime, business history, and urban history), literary studies (including Victorian studies and narrative theory), classics, and cult…

16/07/2015

Check out this recent post on the EXMblog, featuring the work one of our EXM editors. https://exmblog.wordpress.com/2015/07/16/this-is-just-to-say-an-interview-with-patricia-clare-ingham/

Here is something that's unambiguously cool. Follow this link to hear Patricia Clare Ingham, one of the Exemplaria editors, discuss her hot off the press book, The Medieval New: Ambivalence in an A...

09/06/2015

Fixated on a critical debate? Work your obsession, and / or love your symptom, by submitting something to Exemplaria!

26/05/2015

Extra! Extra! Read up on Shannon Gayk & Ingrid Nelson's new special Medieval Genre issue!

A new Exemplaria issue is out! The first issue of volume 27 is a special double issue on "Medieval Genre". Guest edited by Ingrid Nelson and Shannon Gayk, the issue has essays by Jennifer Jahner Ma...

19/05/2015

Back from Kalamazoo, 2015 with late breaking news: Exemplaria is pleased to announce that Dr. Anke Bernau of the University of Manchester will be joining the journal as one of the editors in 2016.

04/05/2015

Exemplaria is Maney's journal of the month for May! Be sure to take advantage of free online articles and special discounts on subscriptions throughout the month: http://ow.ly/MvabU

Exemplaria is Maney's Journal of the Month for May 2015. Consequently, we are offering 3 years' worth of content completely free online for 30 days!

02/01/2015

The latest issue of Exemplaria is now available online: http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/exm/26/4

Articles include: 'Beyond Nostalgia: Formula and Novelty in Old English Literature' by Manish Sharma.

05/06/2014

The new issue of Exemplaria is online now! This is a double issue: 'Surface, Symptom, and the Future of Critique'.

http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/exm/26/2-3

15/05/2014

Peggy McCracken, Exemplaria Book Review Editor, is speaking at the 55th Annual French Studies Conference! Registration closes on 30 May 2014 www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/

Conferences The 55th Annual conference will be held at the University of Aberdeen, 30 June – 2 July 2014.The conference programme is now available: click here. Le programme de la conférence est actuellement disponible: cliquer ici.Registration forms are available here. Forms for discounted rates (re…

23/04/2014

To celebrate , here's a free article from Exemplaria! 'The Birth of Consciousness out of Conscience in Giordano Bruno’s Heroic Frenzies and Shakespeare’s Hamlet' by Cristina Serverius.

http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1041257311Z.0000000012

28/03/2014

Coming soon: "Surface, Symptom, and the Future of Critique," Special Issue of Exemplaria now in press. Coming to a Library/Webspace near you!

21/01/2014

New issue of Exemplaria online now: Pre-Modern Emotions. Articles include 'Being Moved: Louis XIV’s Triumphant Tenderness and the Protestant Object'.

View the table of contents online here: http://www.maneyonline.com/toc/exm/26/1

15/01/2014

Have you visited Maney Online yet? Maney Publishing's exciting new online journal platform has now launched. Take a look at the new Exemplaria page! www.maneyonline.com/exm

17/10/2013

We are very pleased to announce that the 2013 winner of the R Allen and Judy Shoaf Award for the Best Essay Published in Exemplaria is Sonia Velázquez for the paper: 'Didacticism and the Ends of Storytelling: Benjamin's Medievalism and the Form of Knowledge in Sendebar'. The winning paper is free to read online until June 2014!

This article examines two texts, Sendebar, a collection of exempla translated from Arabic into Castilian in the thirteenth century, and Walter Benjamin’s 1936 essay ‘The Storyteller: Observations on the Work of Nikolai Leskov’ in order to offer a nuanced account of the relationship of knowledge and ...

14/10/2013

New issue of Exemplaria online now! Read 'Saint Margaret’s Tattoos: Empowering Marks on White Skin' and more...

View the Table of Contents here: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/exm/2013/00000025/00000004

Hagiographic Ambition, Fabliau Humor, and Creature Comforts in The Book of Margery Kempepp. 284-302(19) Authors:Larsen, Vickie; Curnow, Mary-Katherine