Paul Megna
Biographic Data
| ID | 5965043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Megna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Megna |
| SIGNATURE | MEGNA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1726-5203 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medieval English Theatre 46
Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period.Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic religious plays, and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with an…
Juridical dread and the self-disciplining subject
Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman
Book Review| October 01 2021 Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman. Edited by Thomas A. Goodmann. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2018. Pp. xiv + 266. $40 (cloth); $24 (paper). Paul Megna Paul Megna Purchase College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2021) 120 (4): 545–547. https://doi.org/10.5406/…
Hamlet and Emotions
Forgetfulness
Chaucerian Parrhesia
Existentialist Medievalism and Emotional Identity Politics in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Useless Mouths
Composed at the end of the German Occupation of France during World War II, Simone de Beauvoir’s first and only play, The Useless Mouths (Les bouches inutiles), empathetically imagines the emotional turmoil of besieged noncombatants in the Middle Ages, who were frequently labeled “useless mouths” and forced to undergo atrocious suffering. Both a stunning instance of “feeling for the premodern” and an allegory for the political circumstances in wh…
Langland’s Wrath
The essay traces the subtle political theology of anger interspersed throughout William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Piers Plowman portrays anger as morally ambiguous: although its narrator paints an unflattering portrait of Wrath in the “Confession of the Seven Deadly Sins,” elsewhere he repeatedly attributes anger to obviously righteous characters, including St Truth, Christ, and Piers Plowman himself. Curiously, an early version of the poem, the …
Existentialist Medievalism and Emotional Identity Politics in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Useless Mouths
Composed at the end of the German Occupation of France during World War II, Simone de Beauvoir’s first and only play, The Useless Mouths (Les bouches inutiles), empathetically imagines the emotional turmoil of besieged noncombatants in the Middle Ages, who were frequently labeled “useless mouths” and forced to undergo atrocious suffering. Both a stunning instance of “feeling for the premodern” and an allegory for the political circumstances in wh…
Langland’s Wrath
The essay traces the subtle political theology of anger interspersed throughout William Langland’s Piers Plowman. Piers Plowman portrays anger as morally ambiguous: although its narrator paints an unflattering portrait of Wrath in the “Confession of the Seven Deadly Sins,” elsewhere he repeatedly attributes anger to obviously righteous characters, including St Truth, Christ, and Piers Plowman himself. Curiously, an early version of the poem, the …
Forgetfulness
Chaucerian Parrhesia
Existentialist Medievalism and Emotional Identity Politics in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Useless Mouths
Composed at the end of the German Occupation of France during World War II, Simone de Beauvoir’s first and only play, The Useless Mouths (Les bouches inutiles), empathetically imagines the emotional turmoil of besieged noncombatants in the Middle Ages, who were frequently labeled “useless mouths” and forced to undergo atrocious suffering. Both a stunning instance of “feeling for the premodern” and an allegory for the political circumstances in wh…
Hamlet and Emotions
Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman
Book Review| October 01 2021 Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman Approaches to Teaching Langland’s Piers Plowman. Edited by Thomas A. Goodmann. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2018. Pp. xiv + 266. $40 (cloth); $24 (paper). Paul Megna Paul Megna Purchase College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2021) 120 (4): 545–547. https://doi.org/10.5406/…
Juridical dread and the self-disciplining subject
Medieval English Theatre 46
Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period.Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry from across the British Isles up to the opening of the London playhouses and the suppression of the civic religious plays, and also includes contributions on European and Latin drama, together with an…
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