Jason Crawford
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Crawford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawford |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWFORD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2092-6196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Shakespeare's Comedy of Judgment
Early modern English literary culture was thick with tales of divine judgment. Texts ranging from true-crime pamphlets to Thomas Beard's vast collection The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597) promised to disclose God's work in history, and they found signs of that work in stories of horrific come-uppance: usurers eaten by rats, adulterers mutilated, Sabbath-breakers struck dead. Because they were concerned with the consequences of human transgres…
Shakespeare’s Liturgy of Assumption
In his last exchange with Cordelia, a failing and ecstatic Lear promises that they together will “take upon ’s the mystery of things / As if we were God’s spies” (5.3.16 – 17). Take upon us: what are the implications of this language? Why not invite Cordelia (in the formulations Shakespeare uses elsewhere) to “see,” “discover,” “know,” or “pluck out” mystery? The mystery of things seems here to beckon God’s spies not toward acts of apprehension b…
Personification
Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion. Walter S. Melion and B. A. M. Ramakers, eds. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 41. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xxxii + 756 pp. $293. - Volume 70 Issue 3
Langland's Allegorical Modernity
This essay explores the peculiar allegorical grammar of Piers Plowman in light of the larger question of the poem's modernity. William Langland wrote his great poem at the end of the fourteenth century, at a moment when the forms and institutions of medieval culture were suffering violent rupture. One of his tools for addressing the force of that rupture is allegory, which belongs to the medieval regime but which Langland fashions as the articula…
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Langland's Allegorical Modernity
This essay explores the peculiar allegorical grammar of Piers Plowman in light of the larger question of the poem's modernity. William Langland wrote his great poem at the end of the fourteenth century, at a moment when the forms and institutions of medieval culture were suffering violent rupture. One of his tools for addressing the force of that rupture is allegory, which belongs to the medieval regime but which Langland fashions as the articula…
Personification
Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion. Walter S. Melion and B. A. M. Ramakers, eds. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 41. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xxxii + 756 pp. $293. - Volume 70 Issue 3
Shakespeare’s Liturgy of Assumption
In his last exchange with Cordelia, a failing and ecstatic Lear promises that they together will “take upon ’s the mystery of things / As if we were God’s spies” (5.3.16 – 17). Take upon us: what are the implications of this language? Why not invite Cordelia (in the formulations Shakespeare uses elsewhere) to “see,” “discover,” “know,” or “pluck out” mystery? The mystery of things seems here to beckon God’s spies not toward acts of apprehension b…
Shakespeare's Comedy of Judgment
Early modern English literary culture was thick with tales of divine judgment. Texts ranging from true-crime pamphlets to Thomas Beard's vast collection The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597) promised to disclose God's work in history, and they found signs of that work in stories of horrific come-uppance: usurers eaten by rats, adulterers mutilated, Sabbath-breakers struck dead. Because they were concerned with the consequences of human transgres…
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