Measuring the Measuring Rod: The Bible and Parabiblical Texts within the History of Medieval Literature

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Measuring the Measuring Rod: The Bible and Parabiblical Texts within the History of Medieval Literature

Original language description

In spite of the acknowledged crucial role it had in forming medieval written culture, the Bible and a wide-range of parabiblical texts still remain largely ignored by histories of medieval literatures. The reason for this striking omission of an important group of medieval texts from the &apos;canonical&apos; narratives is, as I argue, the strong bias in favour of national, secular, fictional and original texts which shapes literary studies - an inheritance from the nineteenth-century nationalising approaches discussed in the first issue of the Interfaces journal. Of course, the discipline of literary studies and therefore selection, hierarchization, and interpretation are complex social, cultural and political processes where almost anything is possible. It is the environment, the interpretive community, in which the interpretation takes place that has a decisive role. And that, too, is constantly being transformed. Thus, there are no final categories and answers because as long as there are interpretive communities, meanings are generated and operate in new ways. That is why the present discussion does not aim to claim that many of the parabiblical texts are literature and should have been included in the canon of medieval literature. Rather, I examine what the nineteenth-century notion of canon did to these texts and how the current questioning and substantial reshaping of notions of canon can transform our understanding of parabiblical texts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60205 - Literary theory

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures

ISSN

2421-5503

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Volume of the periodical

4

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

39-58

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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