The New Mediaevalism. (book reviews)
History Today, September, 1993 by Cohen, David
The New Mediaevalism edited by Marina Brownlee, Kevin Brownlee and Stephen G Nichols (Johns Hopkins University Press) uses techniques from different social science disciplines - a bit of deconstruction, a touch of Lacan - to refresh dry history. One chapter looks at memory, textuality and intertextuality. It argues that texts merely refashion memories. The psychological evidence runs counter to that.
But the book is really interested in showing us its intellectual chic. One sentence runs: |There is around us in our minds a vast terra incognita of other texts and also perhaps above all a terra incognita of mythologemes, ideologemes, descriptive systems and sememic structures that the sociolect feeds into texts, and which is the stuff, the precast,...
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