Glossator 9: Pearl

Publisher Marketing: Glossator 9 (2015): Pearl. Edited by Nicola Masciandaro and Karl Steel. Twenty commentaries on the Middle-English poem Pearl, one for each section of the poem, with a preface by the editors. CONTENTS "Innoghe" A Preface on Inexhaustibility - Karl Steel The Arbor and the Pearl: Encapsulating Meaning in "Spot" - William M. Storm Pearl, Fitt II - Kevin Marti Pearl, Fitt III ("more and more") - Piotr Spyra "Py3t" Ornament, Place, and Site - A Commentary on the Fourth Fitt of Pearl - Daniel C. Remein Meeting One's Maker: The Jeweler in Fitt V of Pearl - Noelle Phillips "Mercy Schal Hyr Craftez Kythe" Learning to Perform Re-Deeming Readings of Materiality in Pearl - James C. Staples Fitt 7: Blysse / (Envy) - Paul Megna Pearl, Fitt VIII - Kevin Marti "Ther is no date" The Middle English Pearl and its Work - Walter Wadiak Fitt X - More - Travis Neel Enough (Section XI) - Monika Otter Fitt XII: Ryght - Kay Miller Pearl, Fytt XIII - A. W. Strouse The Jerusalem Lamb of PEARL - Jane Beal Fitt 15 - Lesse -Tekla Bude Out, Out, Damned Spot: Mote in Pearl and the Poems of the Pearl Manuscript - Karen Bollermann Seeing John: A Commentary on the Link Word of Pearl Fitt XVII - Karen Elizabeth Gross Theoretical Lunacy: Moon, Text, and Vision in Fitt XVIII - Bruno M. Shah & Beth Sutherland Delyt and Desire: Ways of Seeing in Pearl - Anne Baden-Daintree Fitt XX - "Paye" - David Coley Contributor Bio:  Masciandaro, Nicola Myra Seaman teaches at the College of Charleston. She has published on Middle English romance, textual studies, gender studies, dream visions, medievalisms, and posthumanisms (medieval and modern). She co-edited the essay collection Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (2007). She is co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies and co-founder of the BABEL Working Group. She is currently working on an extended project that investigates affective literacy among the late medieval English gentry through an object-oriented ontological approach. Eileen A. Joy teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and her main interests are in Old English literature, cultural studies, embodied affectivities, ethics, and the post/human. She is the founder and co-editor of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies and the Lead Ingenitor of the BABEL Working Group. She is also the co-editor of The Postmodern Beowulf (West Virginia University Press, 2007) and Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2007). Nicola Masciandaro teaches at Brooklyn College, is the author of The Voice of the Hammer: The Meaning of Work in Middle English Literature (Notre Dame, 2006), and is also founder and co-editor of Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary. He has published widely on medieval philosophy, mysticism, individuation, geophilosophy, beheading, sorrow, spontaneity, and metal music, among other subjects.