Adin E Lears
Biographic Data
| ID | 6604331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adin E Lears |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adin E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lears |
| SIGNATURE | LEARS A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages
Hawking Women
Sara Petrosillo's monograph probes how medieval thinkers recognized and articulated the complex power dynamic between hawks and their human handlers. It further asks how these dynamics inhere in medieval poetics and reading practice. In doing so, it explores a feminist potential for collaborative relation between human and animal, in which each can maintain self-sovereignty, even as both become extensions of the other. Considering how medieval fa…
Matter and Meaning
New materialism is often understood as a modern theoretical solution to a modern ontological problem (that is, it critiques the forms of violence against human and nonhuman beings that the Enlightenment birth of “humanity” and “humanism” engendered). This cluster’s introductory article argues that the Anglo-European Middle Ages, rather than being historically absolved from the effects of Western Eurocolonialism and Enlightenment hierarchies, are …
The Elf and the Cyborg
Building from scholarship accentuating the confluence of science, technology, and economics in The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, I argue that Chaucer critiques the pursuit of mastery associated with alchemical generation and also offers a glimpse of an alternate way of being through alchemy’s “elvish” aspects: its emphasis on transformation and flux. The elvishness of the medieval alchemist in Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale offers a mode of being-as-ex…
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Matter and Meaning
New materialism is often understood as a modern theoretical solution to a modern ontological problem (that is, it critiques the forms of violence against human and nonhuman beings that the Enlightenment birth of “humanity” and “humanism” engendered). This cluster’s introductory article argues that the Anglo-European Middle Ages, rather than being historically absolved from the effects of Western Eurocolonialism and Enlightenment hierarchies, are …
The Elf and the Cyborg
Building from scholarship accentuating the confluence of science, technology, and economics in The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale, I argue that Chaucer critiques the pursuit of mastery associated with alchemical generation and also offers a glimpse of an alternate way of being through alchemy’s “elvish” aspects: its emphasis on transformation and flux. The elvishness of the medieval alchemist in Chaucer’s Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale offers a mode of being-as-ex…
Hawking Women
Sara Petrosillo's monograph probes how medieval thinkers recognized and articulated the complex power dynamic between hawks and their human handlers. It further asks how these dynamics inhere in medieval poetics and reading practice. In doing so, it explores a feminist potential for collaborative relation between human and animal, in which each can maintain self-sovereignty, even as both become extensions of the other. Considering how medieval fa…
White before Whiteness in the Late Middle Ages
Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetics (2 works) · Scholarship (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Alchemy (1 work)