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HE APPEARANCE in a single issue of New Literary History of five essays devoted to medieval literature-two of which are English translations of major pieces by two of the most distinguished medievalists of our time-is an event of considerable interest to medieval studies as a discipline. What is more, since Hans Robert Jauss and Paul Zumthor have both attempted to make cogent statements concerning the ternary relationship between poets, the world in and about which they wrote, and the modern reader of such poets, this issue of New Literary History raises questions that are pertinent to the state of literary criticism as a whole. It is noteworthy that the initiative behind this publishing venture comes from ajournal which is not, itself, medievalizing: this is one more index of the growing concern among nonmedievalists over the tendency for medieval culture to remain artificially cloistered in a discipline whose epistemological models are rarely defined, much less challenged, by those who practice it. The blame for such inertia lies as much with editors as with writers: never was a field so badly in need of editorial initiative as medieval studies is now.
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