Andrew James Johnston
Biographic Data
| ID | 9609495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew James Johnston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew James |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnston |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSTON A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Chaucerian modernities
This article discusses Chaucer’s perspective on the ideological structures that inform the writing of literary history. In the first verses of the Franklin’s Tale , Chaucer first engenders and then deconstructs an – implicit – teleological narrative of literary history that links questions of genre, orality and history only to deconstruct, in almost the same breath, that very narrative by poetic means. Chaucer’s act of historical deconstruction i…
Preliminary Remarks
Touching the Franks Casket
The contribution examines the Franks Casket, a whale-bone casket probably produced in the northern British kingdom of Northumbria in the eighth century that displays a number of carved images referencing events from different cultural and temporal contexts as well as inscriptions in Roman script and runes, Latin and Old English. We focus on the casket’s lid, which shows a siege scene, with an archer prominently displayed towards the middle, the w…
Introduction
This introduction aims to briefly sketch the theoretical framework for the articles assembled in this special issue on touch within the transmission of the Troy story in western Europe. Starting with the analysis of an important scene involving reading and manuscript culture in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde , this introduction provides a context for medieval instances of touching within contemporary thinking about materiality and relati…
Constructing the Poet’s ‘Now’
In comparison with other Old English poems, “Deor” is unusual both for its stanzaic structure and its refrain. Furthermore, close to the end of the poem, the narrative voice shifts from one that appears to be comfortably heterodiegetic to a homodiegetic voice giving expression to a deep sense of loss. It is through that sense of loss, the article claims, that we witness the construction of an anguished sense of the ‘Now’. This article investigate…
Living in the Future
Poetry in a World of Things
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Poetry in a World of Things
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Living in the Future
Constructing the Poet’s ‘Now’
In comparison with other Old English poems, “Deor” is unusual both for its stanzaic structure and its refrain. Furthermore, close to the end of the poem, the narrative voice shifts from one that appears to be comfortably heterodiegetic to a homodiegetic voice giving expression to a deep sense of loss. It is through that sense of loss, the article claims, that we witness the construction of an anguished sense of the ‘Now’. This article investigate…
Touching the Franks Casket
The contribution examines the Franks Casket, a whale-bone casket probably produced in the northern British kingdom of Northumbria in the eighth century that displays a number of carved images referencing events from different cultural and temporal contexts as well as inscriptions in Roman script and runes, Latin and Old English. We focus on the casket’s lid, which shows a siege scene, with an archer prominently displayed towards the middle, the w…
Introduction
This introduction aims to briefly sketch the theoretical framework for the articles assembled in this special issue on touch within the transmission of the Troy story in western Europe. Starting with the analysis of an important scene involving reading and manuscript culture in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde , this introduction provides a context for medieval instances of touching within contemporary thinking about materiality and relati…
Chaucerian modernities
This article discusses Chaucer’s perspective on the ideological structures that inform the writing of literary history. In the first verses of the Franklin’s Tale , Chaucer first engenders and then deconstructs an – implicit – teleological narrative of literary history that links questions of genre, orality and history only to deconstruct, in almost the same breath, that very narrative by poetic means. Chaucer’s act of historical deconstruction i…
Preliminary Remarks
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Medieval Literature and History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (2 works)