Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

Acknowledgments

pp x-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xi

List of Abbreviations

pp xii-xii

Introduction: The Literary through – or beyond? – Form

pp 1-12

I - Instrumental Forms

pp 13-14

1 - What's the Use? Marian Miracles and the Workings of the Literary

pp 15-34

2 - Form's Practice: Lyrics, Grammars, and the Medieval Idea of the Literary

pp 35-60

3 - Forms of the Hours in Late Medieval England

pp 61-84

II - Form Performed

pp 85-86

4 - Rhymed Alliterative Verse in Mise en page Transition: Two Case Studies in English Poetic Hybridity

pp 87-118

5 - Idiot Psalms: Sound, Style, and the Performance of the Literary in the Towneley Shepherds’ Plays

pp 119-140

6 - Inaudible Music

pp 141-158

III - Temporalities of Form

pp 159-160

7 - Translating Form with Patience

pp 161-184

8 - Terpsichorean Form: Geoffrey Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty

pp 185-212

9 - Illusion and Aspect in the Construction of the Face: Chaucerian Individuals, Chaucerian Types

pp 213-242

10 - Collecting, Violence, Literature: Richard de Bury's Philobiblon and the Forms of Literary History

pp 243-266

Index

pp 267-276