Marion Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5953022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marion Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marion |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Continental England
Elizaveta Strakhov's fascinating and compelling book establishes her as one of the most interesting and important voices emerging in a new generation of Chaucer scholars. At the same time, although Chaucer appears in the subtitle of the book, Continental England in fact makes an argument for decentering Chaucer, as it interrogates the categories of author, nation, and language (p. 14).The category at the center of this book is undoubtedly form. T…
Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Poetics
Chaucer
Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe
Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, including legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings. The essays in this special issue are particularly interested in the functions of metaphor and of narrative. Many thinkers—most famously Susan Sontag—have commented on the problems inherent in trying to write about suffering and on the limitations of metaphorical language. At the same ti…
Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages
Thinkers such as Elaine Scarry and Kathlyn Conway have written about the problems of master narratives of illness: pain can mark the limits of what narrative can do. This essay argues that late medieval writers not only had an understanding of the impulse to fit illness into narrative structures but also understood the inherent limitation that emplotment and narrativization entails. Focusing on a doctor, John Arderne, a patient-poet, Thomas Hoccl…
A Handbook of Middle English Studies
Handbook of Middle English Studies
Usk and the Goldsmiths
Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe
Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, including legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings. The essays in this special issue are particularly interested in the functions of metaphor and of narrative. Many thinkers—most famously Susan Sontag—have commented on the problems inherent in trying to write about suffering and on the limitations of metaphorical language. At the same ti…
Usk and the Goldsmiths
A Handbook of Middle English Studies
Handbook of Middle English Studies
Medical Discourse in Premodern Europe
Medical language permeated all kinds of texts in premodern Europe, including legal, literary, devotional, political, autobiographical, and philosophical writings. The essays in this special issue are particularly interested in the functions of metaphor and of narrative. Many thinkers—most famously Susan Sontag—have commented on the problems inherent in trying to write about suffering and on the limitations of metaphorical language. At the same ti…
Illness Narratives in the Later Middle Ages
Thinkers such as Elaine Scarry and Kathlyn Conway have written about the problems of master narratives of illness: pain can mark the limits of what narrative can do. This essay argues that late medieval writers not only had an understanding of the impulse to fit illness into narrative structures but also understood the inherent limitation that emplotment and narrativization entails. Focusing on a doctor, John Arderne, a patient-poet, Thomas Hoccl…
Chaucer
Continental England
Elizaveta Strakhov's fascinating and compelling book establishes her as one of the most interesting and important voices emerging in a new generation of Chaucer scholars. At the same time, although Chaucer appears in the subtitle of the book, Continental England in fact makes an argument for decentering Chaucer, as it interrogates the categories of author, nation, and language (p. 14).The category at the center of this book is undoubtedly form. T…
Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Poetics
Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (2 works)