Eugene Vance
Biographic Data
| ID | 963609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Vance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Vance |
| SIGNATURE | VANCE E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Past as Text and the Historiography of Tomorrow
The Past as Text and the Historiography of Tomorrow: Notes on a Recent Book Eugene Vance (bio) Shortly after his conversion in 386, St. Augustine expressed doubts about the truth value of historiography as a written commemoration of the past—about the past as text. Speculating in his De ordine about the origins of writing (which he calls the “infancy of grammar,” grammaticae infantiae), or what the Latins also called “literature” (litteratura), h…
L'Ambiguïté
Style and Value
L'A. examine la modification ethique et semantique qui s'opere vers le milieu de La Chanson de Roland lorsque la figure heroique de Charlemagne vient remplacer celle de son neveu
Naming the Rose
Chaucer's Pardoner
T HE RISE OF SEMIOTICS in the early sixties, like that of general linguistics, corresponded in part to a need of students to challenge pervasive models of a historicism (inherent in the structure of the university itself as a product of romantic culture) whose teleology could not be dissociated from such events of recent history as World War II. The semioticians' search for universals was not only transhistorical, but transcultural. The novelty a…
From Topic to Tale
Chretien's Yvain and the Ideologies of Change and Exchange
Medievalisms and Models of Textuality
Le Jeu de la feuillee and the Poetics of Charivari
Dans ce jeu, toutes les conditions psychologiques et sociales sont posees, qui favorisent la condensation du charivari en tant que forme explicite du comportement social. Perversions charnelles et perversions spirituelles, desordre social, politique, religieux, crises de la paternite, tous ces elements du charivari se trouvent deja chez Adam de la Halle
L'Archeologie du signe
"The Functions and Limits of Autobiography in Augustine's "Confessions
The topic of this issue, structure of in fiction, will require certain refinements if I am to deal with it either as a serious theoretical problem or as a possible pragmatic approach to the specific question concerning the functions and limits of autobiographical discourse in St. Augustine's autobiography, the Confessions. I shall not try to remake the topic all at once, but will hope, rather, that its transformation will occur during the analysi…
Chaucer's House of Fame and the Poetics of Inflation
At the risk of sounding dogmatic, I shall set forth a broad claim about Chaucer's poetic art as a whole, and, in the light of this claim, I shall venture some exploratory remarks about the House of Fame. First, I shall suggest that among the most persistent artistic purposes of Chaucer's entire poetic career was that of exploring, through rhetorical strategies either inherited or perfected by him, the ambiguous functions and limits of conventiona…
A Coda
HE APPEARANCE in a single issue of New Literary History of five essays devoted to medieval literature-two of which are English translations of major pieces by two of the most distinguished medievalists of our time-is an event of considerable interest to medieval studies as a discipline. What is more, since Hans Robert Jauss and Paul Zumthor have both attempted to make cogent statements concerning the ternary relationship between poets, the world …
Mervelous Signals
Augustine's Confessions and the Poetics of the Law
Love's Concordance
L'Expression de l'affectivité dans la poésie lyrique française du moyen âge (XIIe-XIIIe s.)
Signs of the City
N SPEAKING of a relationship between cities and literature, one must be careful to avoid from the outset certain naive assumptions that such a topic might harbor. First, we must banish the notion that literature, if we are to grant that literature has its own mode of existence, can provide evidence of a direct sort about the reality of nonverbal phenomena occurring in time and space. Language, which is the vehicle of literature, is a system with …
The Word at Heart
La geste de Guillaume d'Orange dans les manuscrits cycliques
Spatial Structure in the Chanson de Roland
It is all very well to speculate about the origins of the Chanson de Roland, and indeed the worthiest of critics during the last century have displayed their devotion to the poem warmly through brilliant and intriguing speculations about its genesis. Occasionally, however, we must guard against cherishing enigma for its own sake. Whatever the antecedents of the Chanson de Roland, we still possess in the Oxford manuscript a poem which merits being…
"The Functions and Limits of Autobiography in Augustine's "Confessions
The topic of this issue, structure of in fiction, will require certain refinements if I am to deal with it either as a serious theoretical problem or as a possible pragmatic approach to the specific question concerning the functions and limits of autobiographical discourse in St. Augustine's autobiography, the Confessions. I shall not try to remake the topic all at once, but will hope, rather, that its transformation will occur during the analysi…
Style and Value
L'A. examine la modification ethique et semantique qui s'opere vers le milieu de La Chanson de Roland lorsque la figure heroique de Charlemagne vient remplacer celle de son neveu
Chaucer's Pardoner
T HE RISE OF SEMIOTICS in the early sixties, like that of general linguistics, corresponded in part to a need of students to challenge pervasive models of a historicism (inherent in the structure of the university itself as a product of romantic culture) whose teleology could not be dissociated from such events of recent history as World War II. The semioticians' search for universals was not only transhistorical, but transcultural. The novelty a…
Chretien's Yvain and the Ideologies of Change and Exchange
Spatial Structure in the Chanson de Roland
It is all very well to speculate about the origins of the Chanson de Roland, and indeed the worthiest of critics during the last century have displayed their devotion to the poem warmly through brilliant and intriguing speculations about its genesis. Occasionally, however, we must guard against cherishing enigma for its own sake. Whatever the antecedents of the Chanson de Roland, we still possess in the Oxford manuscript a poem which merits being…
La geste de Guillaume d'Orange dans les manuscrits cycliques
The Word at Heart
Signs of the City
N SPEAKING of a relationship between cities and literature, one must be careful to avoid from the outset certain naive assumptions that such a topic might harbor. First, we must banish the notion that literature, if we are to grant that literature has its own mode of existence, can provide evidence of a direct sort about the reality of nonverbal phenomena occurring in time and space. Language, which is the vehicle of literature, is a system with …
Love's Concordance
L'Expression de l'affectivité dans la poésie lyrique française du moyen âge (XIIe-XIIIe s.)
Augustine's Confessions and the Poetics of the Law
Chaucer's House of Fame and the Poetics of Inflation
At the risk of sounding dogmatic, I shall set forth a broad claim about Chaucer's poetic art as a whole, and, in the light of this claim, I shall venture some exploratory remarks about the House of Fame. First, I shall suggest that among the most persistent artistic purposes of Chaucer's entire poetic career was that of exploring, through rhetorical strategies either inherited or perfected by him, the ambiguous functions and limits of conventiona…
A Coda
HE APPEARANCE in a single issue of New Literary History of five essays devoted to medieval literature-two of which are English translations of major pieces by two of the most distinguished medievalists of our time-is an event of considerable interest to medieval studies as a discipline. What is more, since Hans Robert Jauss and Paul Zumthor have both attempted to make cogent statements concerning the ternary relationship between poets, the world …
Mervelous Signals
L'Archeologie du signe
"The Functions and Limits of Autobiography in Augustine's "Confessions
The topic of this issue, structure of in fiction, will require certain refinements if I am to deal with it either as a serious theoretical problem or as a possible pragmatic approach to the specific question concerning the functions and limits of autobiographical discourse in St. Augustine's autobiography, the Confessions. I shall not try to remake the topic all at once, but will hope, rather, that its transformation will occur during the analysi…
Medievalisms and Models of Textuality
Le Jeu de la feuillee and the Poetics of Charivari
Dans ce jeu, toutes les conditions psychologiques et sociales sont posees, qui favorisent la condensation du charivari en tant que forme explicite du comportement social. Perversions charnelles et perversions spirituelles, desordre social, politique, religieux, crises de la paternite, tous ces elements du charivari se trouvent deja chez Adam de la Halle
Chretien's Yvain and the Ideologies of Change and Exchange
Naming the Rose
Chaucer's Pardoner
T HE RISE OF SEMIOTICS in the early sixties, like that of general linguistics, corresponded in part to a need of students to challenge pervasive models of a historicism (inherent in the structure of the university itself as a product of romantic culture) whose teleology could not be dissociated from such events of recent history as World War II. The semioticians' search for universals was not only transhistorical, but transcultural. The novelty a…
From Topic to Tale
Style and Value
L'A. examine la modification ethique et semantique qui s'opere vers le milieu de La Chanson de Roland lorsque la figure heroique de Charlemagne vient remplacer celle de son neveu
L'Ambiguïté
The Past as Text and the Historiography of Tomorrow
The Past as Text and the Historiography of Tomorrow: Notes on a Recent Book Eugene Vance (bio) Shortly after his conversion in 386, St. Augustine expressed doubts about the truth value of historiography as a written commemoration of the past—about the past as text. Speculating in his De ordine about the origins of writing (which he calls the “infancy of grammar,” grammaticae infantiae), or what the Latins also called “literature” (litteratura), h…
Art (18 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Literature (12 works) · Medieval Literature and History (7 works) · History (5 works) · Poetics (5 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Historical and Literary Analyses (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works)