Charlie Samuelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5987569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlie Samuelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlie |
| FAMILY NAME | Samuelson |
| SIGNATURE | SAMUELSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Consent in the Old French Tristan Material
This article troubles the entrenched notion that the device of the magic potion allows the Old French Tristan material to evade issues of consent. In keeping with high medieval reflection on the matter, both Béroul’s and Thomas of Britain’s romances are concerned with whether the influential men around the lovers consent to their behavior. Comparing these versions with each other and contextualizing them in relation to canon law and theology sugg…
Consent and/to gender in the Roman de Silence
This article is about representations of consent in the thirteenth-century Roman de Silence . It first looks to three underexamined parts of the text to establish how they engage with issues of marital, sexual, and political consent. It then shows how the romance relates its interrogation of these different forms of consent to the underlying problem of whether Silence consents to being male. Indeed, the romance persistently returns to this messy …
Approaches to Teaching the “Romance of the Rose.”
Crossing Time with Philippe de Novare
Philippe de Novare’s .iiij. tenz d’aage d’ome (ca. 1264) is a treatise on the Ages of Man that stands out not only for its originality but also for the ways in which it performs an unusually intersubjective dynamics of aging. In this text where structural and rhetorical features are persistently looking forward, backward, and askew, Philippe emphasizes intergenerational interdependence: individuals of different age are dependent on each other, an…
The Beast That Therefore Chrétien Is
Whether considered allegorically or literally, as intertextual symbol or intratextual one, Yvain’s lion has been identified by critics as meaning many different, and often incompatible, things. I contextualize the lion-sign’s ability to resist encapsulation in (human) meaning both in medieval notions of the nature of the beast and in Derridean thinking on animalities. Since Chrétien’s poetics are also routinely described as resistant to reductive…
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The Beast That Therefore Chrétien Is
Whether considered allegorically or literally, as intertextual symbol or intratextual one, Yvain’s lion has been identified by critics as meaning many different, and often incompatible, things. I contextualize the lion-sign’s ability to resist encapsulation in (human) meaning both in medieval notions of the nature of the beast and in Derridean thinking on animalities. Since Chrétien’s poetics are also routinely described as resistant to reductive…
Crossing Time with Philippe de Novare
Philippe de Novare’s .iiij. tenz d’aage d’ome (ca. 1264) is a treatise on the Ages of Man that stands out not only for its originality but also for the ways in which it performs an unusually intersubjective dynamics of aging. In this text where structural and rhetorical features are persistently looking forward, backward, and askew, Philippe emphasizes intergenerational interdependence: individuals of different age are dependent on each other, an…
Consent and/to gender in the Roman de Silence
This article is about representations of consent in the thirteenth-century Roman de Silence . It first looks to three underexamined parts of the text to establish how they engage with issues of marital, sexual, and political consent. It then shows how the romance relates its interrogation of these different forms of consent to the underlying problem of whether Silence consents to being male. Indeed, the romance persistently returns to this messy …
Approaches to Teaching the “Romance of the Rose.”
Consent in the Old French Tristan Material
This article troubles the entrenched notion that the device of the magic potion allows the Old French Tristan material to evade issues of consent. In keeping with high medieval reflection on the matter, both Béroul’s and Thomas of Britain’s romances are concerned with whether the influential men around the lovers consent to their behavior. Comparing these versions with each other and contextualizing them in relation to canon law and theology sugg…
Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Romance (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (2 works) · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work)