postmedieval 4.3: Fault
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Introducing the winners of the first biennial Michael Camille essay prize (Eileen A. Joy [BABEL Working Group])
2012 MICHAEL CAMILLE ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS
Lions and Latour litanies in The Sketchbook of Villard de Honnecourt (Haylie Swenson [George Washington University])
From medieval saint to modern bête noire: The case of the Vitae Æthelwoldi (Alison Hudson [Oriel College, Oxford])
SPECIAL CLUSTER: FAULT
Edited by Anna Kłosowska (Miami University)
ARTICLES
From Oulipo to al-Ṣafadī: Fault, the absurd, parody and error in medieval and early modern literature (Anna Kłosowska [Miami University])
Fumblr: The academic failblog (Asa Simon Mittman [California State Chico] and Shyama Rajendran [George Washington University]
Anticipatory plagiarism and the ex post facto–garde (Chris Piuma [University of Toronto])
Recycling topology as topos in music and narrative: Machaut, Bach, Möbius, Coetzee, Josipovici, and composition (Brian Macaskill [John Carroll University])
Presently old: Time according to three early modern codices (Heather Bamford [George Washington University])
Memorialization in white: Chaucerian topology and the defaute of subjectivity (Wan-Chuan Kao [Washington and Lee University])
Play and display: al-Ṣafadī’s Invention of Absurdity (Kelly Tuttle [Earlham College])
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Carmen et Error (Stephen Murphy [Wake Forest University])
reviewing:
T. Conley, An Errant Eye: Poetry and Topography in Early Modern France (University of Minnesota Press, 2011 )
S. Lerer, Error and the Academic Self: The Scholarly Imagination, Medieval to Modern (Columbia University Press, 2002)
F. Rigolot, L’Erreur de la Renaissance: Perspectives littéraires (Honoré Champion, 2002)
G. Teskey, Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity (Harvard University Press, 2006)
J. Yates, Error Misuse Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance (University of Minnesota, 2002)
