Randy P Schiff
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randy P Schiff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randy P |
| FAMILY NAME | Schiff |
| SIGNATURE | SCHIFF R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Waste and the Wasters
The Historical Arthur and the “Gawain” Poet
Death and the Pearl Maiden
The COVID-19 pandemic (still ongoing at the time of this writing) has made viscerally clear how massive the scale of infectious disease can be. Having seemingly penetrated all places at all levels of society since March 2020, COVID-19 seems to haunt anything and everything in our era—even when we are not explicitly addressing it.The scale of the Black Death of 1347–1350, along with the recurring outbreaks of bubonic plague, surely seems, even to …
Ennobling Centralization
While it has been dismissed as mediocre, Lancelot of the Laik has recently inspired critical interest in its fusion of political and erotic elements. Comparison of its fragmentary text with its French original shows that the poem’s political section is not over-long, and that it crucially connects courtly excellence with community building. Introducing an over-meditative narrator whose erotic yearnings are selfishly confined to a private garden, …
Medieval Modes of Community
Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature. By Jonathan Hsy. The Ohio State University Press. 2013.The Island Garden: England’s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell
On firm Carthaginian ground
Resisting Surfaces
Calling for surface reading practices that will not distort literary texts, Best and Marcus argue for descriptive and distant modes of surface reading, and assume a single, static, and objective model of the text. Besides risking the de-politicization and de-historicization of texts, advocates for purely descriptive criticism threaten the liveliness of pedagogical engagement. Devaluing critical work that is both popular and reproducible by studen…
Against All England
Book Review| October 01 2010 Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656 Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656. By Robert W. Barrett, Jr. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 306; 7 illustrations. $35. RANDY P. SCHIFF RANDY P. SCHIFF SUNY Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2010) 109 (4)…
Cross-Channel Becomings-Animal
This essay argues that William of Palerne, a fourteenth-century Middle English translation of the twelfth-century Old French romance Guillaume de Palerne, outdoes its French predecessor in sustaining Western aristocratic hegemony. William's translation is motivated not by patriotism, but by a desire to disseminate elitist class values. Both versions feature what Bourdieu calls “rites of passage,” in which nobles cement their exceptional status th…
Borderland Subversions
On firm Carthaginian ground
Resisting Surfaces
Calling for surface reading practices that will not distort literary texts, Best and Marcus argue for descriptive and distant modes of surface reading, and assume a single, static, and objective model of the text. Besides risking the de-politicization and de-historicization of texts, advocates for purely descriptive criticism threaten the liveliness of pedagogical engagement. Devaluing critical work that is both popular and reproducible by studen…
Borderland Subversions
Cross-Channel Becomings-Animal
This essay argues that William of Palerne, a fourteenth-century Middle English translation of the twelfth-century Old French romance Guillaume de Palerne, outdoes its French predecessor in sustaining Western aristocratic hegemony. William's translation is motivated not by patriotism, but by a desire to disseminate elitist class values. Both versions feature what Bourdieu calls “rites of passage,” in which nobles cement their exceptional status th…
Borderland Subversions
Against All England
Book Review| October 01 2010 Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656 Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656. By Robert W. Barrett, Jr. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Pp. xvii + 306; 7 illustrations. $35. RANDY P. SCHIFF RANDY P. SCHIFF SUNY Buffalo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2010) 109 (4)…
Resisting Surfaces
Calling for surface reading practices that will not distort literary texts, Best and Marcus argue for descriptive and distant modes of surface reading, and assume a single, static, and objective model of the text. Besides risking the de-politicization and de-historicization of texts, advocates for purely descriptive criticism threaten the liveliness of pedagogical engagement. Devaluing critical work that is both popular and reproducible by studen…
Medieval Modes of Community
Trading Tongues: Merchants, Multilingualism, and Medieval Literature. By Jonathan Hsy. The Ohio State University Press. 2013.The Island Garden: England’s Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell
On firm Carthaginian ground
Ennobling Centralization
While it has been dismissed as mediocre, Lancelot of the Laik has recently inspired critical interest in its fusion of political and erotic elements. Comparison of its fragmentary text with its French original shows that the poem’s political section is not over-long, and that it crucially connects courtly excellence with community building. Introducing an over-meditative narrator whose erotic yearnings are selfishly confined to a private garden, …
Death and the Pearl Maiden
The COVID-19 pandemic (still ongoing at the time of this writing) has made viscerally clear how massive the scale of infectious disease can be. Having seemingly penetrated all places at all levels of society since March 2020, COVID-19 seems to haunt anything and everything in our era—even when we are not explicitly addressing it.The scale of the Black Death of 1347–1350, along with the recurring outbreaks of bubonic plague, surely seems, even to …
The Historical Arthur and the “Gawain” Poet
Waste and the Wasters
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