{"id":12227,"date":"2019-10-22T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T06:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=12227"},"modified":"2020-06-19T05:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:35:31","slug":"hastings-2019-m-mla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts-of-papers-for-the-m-mla-convention\/hastings-2019-m-mla\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings (2019 M-MLA)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Hastings
\n(Loyola University Chicago<\/em>)
\n“Social Virtue and Family Honor in Boccaccio’s Unhappy Romances”<\/h3>\n

Abstract of Paper Presented at the 2019 Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (Chicago, 2019)
\nConvention Theme:\u00a0 \u201cDuality, Doubles, and Doppelg\u00e4ngers\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Panel on “Duality and Manuscript Evidence”<\/strong>
\nSponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>
\nOrganized By Justin Hastings<\/p>\n

2019 M-MLA Panel<\/a><\/p>\n

[Published on our website on 21 October 2019<\/em>]<\/p>\n

\u201cEmily Dickinson\u2019s Choosing: Biblical Intertext and Fascicle 33\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Abstract
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1993, Sharon Cameron published her seminal book Choosing not Choosing: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Fascicles<\/em>.\u00a0 This work has influenced scholarship on Dickinson\u2019s poetry in two ways.\u00a0 First, it was and is a powerful reminder of the fact that Dickinson herself first collected her poems in a complicated and nuanced material form and that, consequently, reading the individual poems outside of the fascicles into which the poet collected her poems is necessarily distortive.\u00a0 Second, Cameron\u2019s approach stressed \u201cindeterminacy\u201d in scholarly interpretations of Dickinson\u2019s poetry, by arguing that the poems within the fascicles evince the poet\u2019s refusal to \u201cchoose\u201d and thereby to delimit the poems\u2019 form and meaning.<\/p>\n

Cameron\u2019s book has cast a long penumbra over Dickinson Studies \u2014 and rightfully so.\u00a0 This paper argues that looking closely at the the poems contained within the thirty-third fascicle<\/a> does, in fact, show a cohesive thematic program between and among its individual poems; however, it also argues that Fascicle 33 uses the Gospel of Matthew as an intertextual structure and that, consequently, far from evincing an indeterminacy resulting from her abnegation of choice, shows instead Dickinson actively choosing and guiding interpretation of the fascicle\u2019s poems.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Justin Hastings is currently a Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at Loyola University Chicago.\u00a0 His primary research focus is the medieval reception and transmission of the Roman poet Horace and his influence over vernacular literary production in the Middle Ages.\u00a0 Justin is currently working on his first monograph, entitled The Horatian Tradition in Britain, 1200-1550<\/em>.\u00a0 This paper on Dickinson\u2019s fascicles comes out of his broader interests in textual studies and book history, both of which began during his earliest days of graduate work at the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHic et Haec<\/em>:\u00a0 The Feast of Corpus Christi, the Myth of Jewish Male Menstruation, and Allegoresis.\u201d\u00a0 Essays in Medieval Studies<\/em> 34 (2019), pp. 39\u201352. doi:10.1353\/ems.2018.0002<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, vol. 4: C Pass\u016bs 15-19; B Pass\u016bs 13-17, <\/em> by Traugott Lawler (book review).\u00a0 Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association<\/em> 52.1 (Spring 2019).<\/p>\n

\u201cHoratian Satire and Narratorial Persona in Piers Plowman.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0(Forthcoming).<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018He Was Somdeel Squaymous of Fartyng<\/em>\u2019:\u00a0 Verbal Transgression, Judas Iscariot, and the Miller\u2019s Tale<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 (Forthcoming).<\/p>\n

\u201cHorace Speaking French:\u00a0 The Source-Text and Purpose of the 1588 Translation of Horace by the Aigneaux Brothers.\u201d\u00a0 (In preparation).<\/p>\n

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Note:<\/em>\u00a0 We thank Justin for his continuing contributions to Research Group conference activities.\u00a0 They include his organization of our Permanent Panels at the Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association (2016\u2013), as well as his papers for our sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies and for our M-MLA Permanent Panels. The Abstracts for his papers are published on our website:<\/p>\n

Hastings (2019 M-MLA): You are Here.
\nHastings (2018 M-MLA<\/a>)
\nHastings (2018 Congress<\/a>)
\nHastings (2013 Congress<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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