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Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Later Middle Ages by Seeta Chaganti

Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Later Middle Ages by Seeta Chaganti Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/117/867412/0270117b.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Peter Mack, Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 255 pp. Reading Old Books offers readings of an eclectic selection of literary texts— Petrarch’s love poetry; Chaucer and Boccaccio; Ariosto, Tasso, and Spencer; Elizabeth Gaskell; Ngugi wa Thiong’o— loosely linked around the theme of tra- dition. The looseness of the link is evident not only in the surprise of going from the familiar national line of Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ariosto straight to Gaskell’s Mary Barton, but also in the rather strained claim that the plot of Mary Barton turns on the daughter’s not following a traditional female role, a quite different idea of tradition. The book’s introduction and conclusion deal more generally or theoretically with tradition but, while doing so, show inadequate awareness of how complex even the word tradition is, of how it can be manipulated for self- authorization, and of how it has become a source of such earnest contention in cultural studies. This book is resolutely literary in its focus, though its topic cries out for some study of institutions and their role in broader intellectual discourses, as well as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Strange Footing: Poetic Form and Dance in the Later Middle Ages by Seeta Chaganti

Butterfield, Ardis
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/117/867412/0270117b.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 Peter Mack, Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 255 pp. Reading Old Books offers readings of an eclectic selection of literary texts— Petrarch’s love poetry; Chaucer and Boccaccio; Ariosto, Tasso, and Spencer; Elizabeth Gaskell; Ngugi wa Thiong’o— loosely linked around the theme of tra- dition. The looseness of the link is evident not only in the surprise of going from the familiar national line of Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Ariosto straight to Gaskell’s Mary Barton, but also in the rather strained claim that the plot of Mary Barton turns on the daughter’s not following a traditional female role, a quite different idea of tradition. The book’s introduction and conclusion deal more generally or theoretically with tradition but, while doing so, show inadequate awareness of how complex even the word tradition is, of how it can be manipulated for self- authorization, and of how it has become a source of such earnest contention in cultural studies. This book is resolutely literary in its focus, though its topic cries out for some study of institutions and their role in broader intellectual discourses, as well as

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Published: Jan 1, 2021

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