David K Coley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3433834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David K Coley |
| GIVEN NAMES | David K |
| FAMILY NAME | Coley |
| SIGNATURE | COLEY D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript
For those inclined to meddle with punctuation (and medievalists are more inclined than most to meddle with punctuation) the subtitle of Arthur Bahr's monograph offers an enticing bit of grammatical frisson. With its commas in place, the subtitle scans as a provocative list of descriptors for Bahr's project: the speculation that the enigmatic Pearl-Manuscript—the unique witness to Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—inv…
Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry
Pearl
Symptomatic Subjects
Even the most casual readers of medieval literature would find it hard to miss that the corpus of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English writing is interwoven with a dazzling wealth of medical and surgical language. From the Summoner's “whelkes white” and Arcite's agonizing death in The Canterbury Tales, to the cankered and suppurating Dead Sea in Cleanness, to Margery Kempe's symptomized imitatio Christi, to the “þouȝtful maladie” of Hoccleve…
Diaspora, Neighborhood, Empire
Beginning with a consideration of double identity that the Gawain-poet develops for Aeneas and his band of Trojan exiles — on the one hand, a scattered and traumatized people marked by the loss of their ancestral homeland; on the other hand, a colonizing force establishing dominance throughout Europe — this article examines the mingled diasporic and colonial formations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) through the lens of Avtar Brah’s con…
The Signifying Power of Pearl
The fourteenth-century dream vision Pearl is an insistently uncooperative poem. Generically, it oscillates among elegy, allegory and consolation; theologically, it reads as both unyielding in its C
The Illuminated Theatre
Reviewed by: The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images by Joe Kelleher David Coley THE ILLUMINATED THEATRE: STUDIES ON THE SUFFERING OF IMAGES. By Joe Kelleher. New York: Routledge, 2015; pp. 208. Given its ephemeral state, live performance often only lasts beyond our experience of it through our memories. Those memories degrade over time, falling apart a little bit more with each recollection. Despite this, certain images from …
Disappearing Tricks
Reviewed by: Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century by Matthew Solomon David Coley Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century. By Matthew Solomon. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010; pp. 216. The discourse of “magic” has often been invoked to describe both live theatre and movies, but Matthew Solomon’s fascinating study documents the explicit conn…
Remembering Lot’s Wife/Lot’s Wife Remembering
Cleanness is not only a work of biblical didacticism but also a sustained meditation on trauma, a poem whose consideration of several biblical cataclysms reveals a robust engagement with loss and the concomitant issues of traumatic witness and representation. It is, moreover, a poem that reveals both the necessity and danger of witnessing by turning its gaze upon the bodies of the dead and upon the suffering of the doomed and the living. Drawing …
The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship
Diaspora, Neighborhood, Empire
Beginning with a consideration of double identity that the Gawain-poet develops for Aeneas and his band of Trojan exiles — on the one hand, a scattered and traumatized people marked by the loss of their ancestral homeland; on the other hand, a colonizing force establishing dominance throughout Europe — this article examines the mingled diasporic and colonial formations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) through the lens of Avtar Brah’s con…
Remembering Lot’s Wife/Lot’s Wife Remembering
Cleanness is not only a work of biblical didacticism but also a sustained meditation on trauma, a poem whose consideration of several biblical cataclysms reveals a robust engagement with loss and the concomitant issues of traumatic witness and representation. It is, moreover, a poem that reveals both the necessity and danger of witnessing by turning its gaze upon the bodies of the dead and upon the suffering of the doomed and the living. Drawing …
The Creation of Lancastrian Kingship
Remembering Lot’s Wife/Lot’s Wife Remembering
Cleanness is not only a work of biblical didacticism but also a sustained meditation on trauma, a poem whose consideration of several biblical cataclysms reveals a robust engagement with loss and the concomitant issues of traumatic witness and representation. It is, moreover, a poem that reveals both the necessity and danger of witnessing by turning its gaze upon the bodies of the dead and upon the suffering of the doomed and the living. Drawing …
Disappearing Tricks
Reviewed by: Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century by Matthew Solomon David Coley Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century. By Matthew Solomon. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2010; pp. 216. The discourse of “magic” has often been invoked to describe both live theatre and movies, but Matthew Solomon’s fascinating study documents the explicit conn…
The Illuminated Theatre
Reviewed by: The Illuminated Theatre: Studies on the Suffering of Images by Joe Kelleher David Coley THE ILLUMINATED THEATRE: STUDIES ON THE SUFFERING OF IMAGES. By Joe Kelleher. New York: Routledge, 2015; pp. 208. Given its ephemeral state, live performance often only lasts beyond our experience of it through our memories. Those memories degrade over time, falling apart a little bit more with each recollection. Despite this, certain images from …
The Signifying Power of Pearl
The fourteenth-century dream vision Pearl is an insistently uncooperative poem. Generically, it oscillates among elegy, allegory and consolation; theologically, it reads as both unyielding in its C
Diaspora, Neighborhood, Empire
Beginning with a consideration of double identity that the Gawain-poet develops for Aeneas and his band of Trojan exiles — on the one hand, a scattered and traumatized people marked by the loss of their ancestral homeland; on the other hand, a colonizing force establishing dominance throughout Europe — this article examines the mingled diasporic and colonial formations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (SGGK) through the lens of Avtar Brah’s con…
Symptomatic Subjects
Even the most casual readers of medieval literature would find it hard to miss that the corpus of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English writing is interwoven with a dazzling wealth of medical and surgical language. From the Summoner's “whelkes white” and Arcite's agonizing death in The Canterbury Tales, to the cankered and suppurating Dead Sea in Cleanness, to Margery Kempe's symptomized imitatio Christi, to the “þouȝtful maladie” of Hoccleve…
Pearl
Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript
For those inclined to meddle with punctuation (and medievalists are more inclined than most to meddle with punctuation) the subtitle of Arthur Bahr's monograph offers an enticing bit of grammatical frisson. With its commas in place, the subtitle scans as a provocative list of descriptors for Bahr's project: the speculation that the enigmatic Pearl-Manuscript—the unique witness to Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—inv…
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