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oapen-20.500.12657-254392022-07-21T14:40:04Z The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits Smith, James L. literary studies medieval literature Chaucer network theory sociology bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. The resulting volume asks a core question: what can we learn by tarrying at the nexus points and hubs through which things move in and out of texts, attempting to trace not the things themselves or their supposedly stable significations, but rather their forms of emergence and retreat, of disorder and disequilibrium? The answer is complex and intermediate, for we ourselves are emerging and retreating within our own systems of transit and experiencing our own disequilibrium. Scholarship, like transit, is never complete and yet never congeals into inertia. 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:39:28Z 2020-04-01T10:39:28Z 2017 book 1004656 OCN: 1048121773 9781947447370 9781947447363 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25439 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 1004656.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0190.1.00 10.21983/P3.0190.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781947447370 9781947447363 ScholarLed 136 Brooklyn, NY open access
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What strange transactions take place in the mobile spaces between loci? How does the flow of forces between fixed points enliven texts, suggest new connections, and map out the dizzying motion of myriad interactions? The essays in this volume were first presented at the 2014 New Chaucer Society Congress in Reykjavik, Iceland where a meeting of minds in a shared intermediate space initiated dialogue from diverse perspectives and wended its way through the invisible spaces between concrete categories, objects, and entities. The resulting volume asks a core question: what can we learn by tarrying at the nexus points and hubs through which things move in and out of texts, attempting to trace not the things themselves or their supposedly stable significations, but rather their forms of emergence and retreat, of disorder and disequilibrium? The answer is complex and intermediate, for we ourselves are emerging and retreating within our own systems of transit and experiencing our own disequilibrium. Scholarship, like transit, is never complete and yet never congeals into inertia.
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