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• W2782179830 abstract "REVIEWS They should be warned, however, that the documentary realization of this particular work makes fewer concessions than might have been ex­ pected to the convenience of its scholarly readers. The book is attractively printed and laid out, but the proofreading shows numerous signs of negli­ gence and rape, and it is exasperatingly difficult to consult the Notes on the Text, which are relegated to the back of the book, and not keyed by a running header to either page numbers or chapters (Why do academic publishers still do this? Does nobody ever complain?). BELLA MILLETT University of Southampton GAYLE MARGHERITA. The Romance ofOrigins: Language and Sexual Differ­ ence in Middle English Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylva­ nia Press, 1994. Pp. xvi, 214. $34.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Professor Margherita remarks early on in her preface that this is not a book about 'women in medieval literature' (p. xii), and indeed it is not. It does not at all seek to relive or re-create a feminine experience, but is an attempt rather to look at a diverse group of well-known Middle English texts, with a view to uncovering, dissecting, and clarifying a whole series of discursive practices, linguistic formations that will shed light on very broad theoretical issues in historicity itself, and in particular, on the rela­ tionship between history and literary representations. She begins by restating for us what she sees as the operative assumptions of present-day historicist readings of medieval literature, specifically the assumption that only two readings of the past are possible, and that these readings cannot really speak to each other in any meaningful way. Either the medieval period is irreducibly different and 'other,' or it is fundamen­ tally the same, linked to our own historical context by philosophical, lin­ guistic, and/or psychic 'universals' that resist any historical specification (p. ix). But faced with this apparently intractable schism between the claims of alterity on the one hand, and human Nature--or some other originary fantasy of your own choice-she decides upon a course that will shed light not only on the nature of this split but on the natures of many other things as well: literary representation, canonicity, the presenta­ tion of the feminine, and, ultimately, the ways in which we can re-view the 247 STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER contours and features of poems as heavily studied and remarked upon as Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This course is to use the insights and heuristic frameworks provided by such modern theoretical inventions as deconstruction and psychoanalytical theory, basically Lacanian in its cast, to reinterrogate our own notions of historicity and our own creation and sustenance of originary myths in order to show the series of texts under scrutiny as repositories of historical traces of various kinds, traces that will in the end bring Margherita back to where she started in the preface, namely, to a way of re-seeing the historicist positioning not only of medieval literature as an object of study but also of the field of medieval studies as well. Let me assure you at the outset that this trip is well worth the taking, especially with Gayle Mar­ gherita as your guide. The itinerary goes like this: aside from the preface and an introductory chapter called The Psychic Life of the Past, and an intriguing afterword entitled The Medieval Thing, the study consists of six chapters devoted to medieval texts. The first three of these are devoted to literary items that, though by no means unknown, are certainly left relatively uncovered by modern critical commentary: Margery Kempe and the Pathology of Writ­ ing, Body and Metaphor in the Middle EnglishJuliana, and the provoc­ atively entitled Women and Riot in the Harley Lyrics. The lyrics ana­ lyzed in this last chapter are also included in an appendix, where they are even translated for us by the author, as are all of the quotations from medieval texts used in the body of the book, except for those taken from Chaucer; all of which hints at a hoped-for audience ranging beyond the confines of the Medieval Academy membership itself, a hope..." @default.
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