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Catherine Brown |
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Areas
Medieval Literature, Literary Theory, Comparative Literature Interests and Current Work I study the European Middle Ages (Spanish, French, Latin). I am particularly interested in questions of materialities of communication and interpretation––in both medieval and contemporary practices. I am the author of Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic and the Poetics of Didacticism (Stanford UP, 1998). My current book project, The Living Letter, studies theories and practices of embodied language––mostly but not entirely from the Latin Middle Ages. Recent and Selected Publications Contrary Things: Exegesis, Dialectic and the Poetics of Didacticism in the Middle Ages. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998. Articles on the "Libro de buen amor", the "Arcipreste de Talavera", Ramón Menéndez Pidal and hispanomedievalism, Heloise and Abelard. The Living Letter of the Middle Ages, on metaphor and materialities of the alphabetic letter in (mostly) medieval thought and writing practice. |