In this essay, Faye Walker analyzes the boundaries
between medieval studies and poststructuralism, two areas that her experience
has deemed largely incompatible in pedagogy. The primary difficult lies in
attempting to take “apart the nineteenth-century construction of "medieval
studies" and trying to imagine both a pre-nineteenth century model and a
postmodern "shape" (for lack of a more descriptive word of a loosely
structured body of material) for medieval studies.” She calls out the false
dichotomy of poststructuralism and medieval studies, and through an exhaustive
amount of academic research posits that both forms of literary study can be
helpful in understanding the other. I was a bit surprised with this article,
mainly because I didn’t realize that there was such a distinction between these
two areas of study. Although the article didn’t end up being helpful for my
paper, it was an interesting read and gave me something to think about. Also,
Jill Mann (the editor of our version of the Canterbury
Tales) is briefly quoted as one of the many scholars Walker refers to in
this article.
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