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Amsterdam: Rodopi, Faux Titre, 2010
In Reception and Memory: A Cognitive Approach to the Chansons de Geste, I analyze the memory-based processing of epic poems experienced both orally and textually within the twelfth-century sociohistorical context of their creation and performance. I argue that understanding the extent to which the poems rely on audience memory to achieve both dramatic and comic effects underscores a literary aesthetic characteristic of the time and culture in which they appear.
West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011
This volume, co-edited with Jennifer Marston William, Howard Mancing and Richard Schweickert, explores through a series of nineteen essays how readers attribute states of mind, perspectives, and intentions to fictional characters as they read literary texts from a variety of cultural, linguistic and historical contexts, and ultimately what this mindreading, empathizing activity as readers means in the real world.
Select peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:
- “Reading Minds in the Old French Epic: Empathy and Its Absence,” in The Epic Imagination in Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Alice M. Colby-Hall, ed. Philip E. Bennett, Leslie Zarker Morgan, F. Regina Psaki. Romance Monographs Vol. S. -5. University of Mississipi, 2016.
- “Is Perceval Autistic?: Theory of Mind in the Conte del Graal,” in Theory of Mind and Literature, ed. Paula Leverage, Howard Mancing, Richard Schweickert, Jennifer Marston William. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2011: 133-51.
- “Sex and the Sacraments in Tristan de Nanteuil,” in Sexuality in the Middle Ages, ed. Albrecht Classen. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008: 517-33.
- “Reading Hagiography in an Epic: The Liturgical Calendar in Girart de Roussillon,” Dalhousie French Studies (82), Spring 2008: 151-162.
- “The Five Dreams of Girart de Roussillon,” Olifant, New Series, (24.1), 2005: 39-60.
- “Medieval Mnemonic in Camus’ L’Étranger,” Romance Notes (45.2), 2005: 203-9.
- “Identité variable: quand la répétition ne se répète pas,” in L’Épopée romane au Moyen Âge et aux temps modernes, Actes du XIV Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l’étude des Épopées Romanes (Naples, 24-30 juillet 1997). 2 vols. Ed. Salvatore Luongo. Naples, Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001, II: 933-44.
- “Unrolling Memories: Audience Inscription in the Renaut de Montauban Prologue,” Romania: Revue trimestrielle consacrée à l’étude des langues et des littératures romanes (118), 2000: 206-18.
- “Memory and Mnemonic Images in some Chanson de geste Prologues,” in Romance Languages Annual (11) 1999: 63-7.
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