...Patricia Cox Miller © by Duke University Press 2003 Is There a Harlot in This Text? Hagiography and the Grotesque Patricia Cox Miller Syracuse University...

..., whose aggressive illnesses rob her of bodily control (4372). Even a reader unfamiliar with medieval Scots can glean the grotesque effects of her condi- tion from the onomatopoesis: Scho riftit [belched], routit [bellowed], and maid sic stends [convulsions], Scho yeild...

... in their depictions of sub- jects. Larmessin’s are “grotesque” because they draw also on a vestimentary lexicon of costumes that encourages us to read the outfits as characters in a dramatization of Parisian life. An allegorical state of the trade around 1695, the outfit pertaining to the work of coffee, tea...

... criticism since the late 1980s.1 Special critical interest has been shown for nonhegemonic corporeality in all its forms: the monstrous, the marginal, the grotesque, and the female body. Here, as in other fields, contemporary interest in the body has tended to be closely associated with, if not short...

... in a passage that fuses pictorial representation and sustenance. Gayton’s travesty looks much like the grotesque engravings that were circulating in mid-seventeenth- century England, here especially the cook wearing his utensils as armor: Sancho was otherwise imployed, ransacking of a Sumpter...

...” (Tragedie [F1], 3.7.67). Finally, in one of the most grotesquely tragicomic scenes in Renaissance drama, Gloucester, who “stumbled” when he had eyes, tries to rid himself of his stumbling life by throwing himself over the cliffs of Dover: “Let goe my hand . . “He kneeles . . “He fals . . .” (History...

....41 The self-consciousness in the don- ning of this role makes of it a kind of grotesque parable of the actor’s craft in general — the experimental embrace of a possible self figured through any performance at all. One can extend such an inquiry quite widely in Shakespeare’s work...

... servant, nameless Deacon Pie- baker Breechless] – Without name and with- out pants, the comical author- figure places his signature on the amplifying distortions worked out between the grotesque materiality of language and of the body. III The first words of Robert Henryson’s “Sum Practysis...

... Leonardo da Vinci's famous grotesque heads are a notable example of this interest, which takes center stage in the work of the main theorist of human physical proportion, Dürer. 47 After having set the terms of ideal beauty for the “man of good complexion,” Dürer dedicates the third book of his treatise...

..., grotesque acts (leaping into Ophelia's grave, crudely assaulting Gertrude about the “enseamed bed”; blacking up, betrothing Iago; howling in animal rage on the heath and again at Cordelia's death), and it's worth recalling that Burbage played Volpone and Subtle, too. What does this dynamic tell us about...

..., and classical witchcraft, even as they emphasized the veracity of their accounts.36 Judging from the surviving evidence, from the 1590s through the first decade of the seventeenth century, the witchcraft genre par excellence remained the pamphlet. Unlike murderous wives, monster-bearing and grotesque...

... of Ornament in the Italian Renais- sance. Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 245. Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, vol. 10. Leiden: Brill, 2016. xv, 692 pp.; 127 illus. $282.00. Karafel, Lorraine. Raphael’s Tapestries: The Grotesques of Leo X. New Haven, Conn...

... in the Literatures of the Medieval North. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015. viii, 250 pp. $99.00. Morgan, Luke. The Monster in the Garden: The Grotesque and the Gigantic in Renaissance Landscape Design. Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 256 pp.; 47 figs...

... (Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1981). See also the treatment of the account by Patricia Cox Miller in this volume, “Is There a Harlot in This Text? Hagiography and the Grotesque,” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 33 (2003): 419–35. 5See John Anson, “The Female...

... water flowed (see fig. 8).81 Pierino’s joke about metamorphosis (from boy’s urine or satyr’s saliva to water) is accentuated by the grotesque mask that symbolizes deception and self-conscious theatricality. In this statue, as in numerous representations of devils and in various wordplays, the nose...

... black-­and-­white plates. Paper $40.00. Bedos-­Rezak, Brigitte Miriam. When Ego Was Imago: Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages. Visualising the Middle Ages, vol. 3. Leiden: Brill, 2011. xxix, 321 pp.; 32 plates. $168.00. Connelly, Frances S. The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image...

... with whom the text opens, grotesque though he may be, craves acceptance by the new race that has colonized his homeland. With his strangely confessional riddles, he tries to establish relationships with them on his own terms, seeking out those who can discern and speak openly of the extreme behavior...

...–54). Jesus, moreover, is charged with just the kind of violent impertinence that his creatures so grotesquely display: “Then they accuse me of great blasphemie, / That I did thrust into the Deitie” (61–62). His torturers will prove guilty of just the gesture for which they accuse Jesus, thrusting...

.... $60.00. Weisgerber, Jean. La Muse des Jardins: Jardins de l’Europe littéraire (1580– 1700). Nouvelle poétique comparatiste, vol. 5. Bruxelles: P.I.E.-Peter Lang, 2002. 216 pp.; 12 Žgs. Paper $22.95. 12. The marvelous Bovey, Alixe. Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts . Toronto...

.... If these fiends are distorted images of each other, they are likewise images of Dread himself in various states of corruption, his possible selves splayed out grotesquely before his eyes. Here is where the suffocation, and the difference, of theBowge really begins. If the protagonist of medieval...