CUNY Academic Commons | Emily Price | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/eprice/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Price. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d30f8f842b05d12854313fd0d09a0097 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=511 Wed, 16 Jun 2021 16:57:25 -0400 Ugly Feelings is a study of negative emotions in the modern era, which Sianne Ngai characterizes as a state of affective equivocation trapped within an inability to exert ones agency, a claim which echoes […]

]]> 24fc4606d57a3df0f3c29194a5ad629f Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=509 Tue, 15 Jun 2021 18:15:58 -0400 Early in The Immortality of the Soul, William of Auvergne moves from a theological explanation of why the soul must exist to a practical one. The soul and the body are mutually affective, he argues; they not only […]

]]> 9fde39e805d997eb3f9a1421d3f77b4e Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=497 Wed, 19 May 2021 23:57:52 -0400 On the first page of The Right to Look, Nicholas Mirzoeff claims that “the right to look is the right to the real”– in other words, looking and being looked at in such a way that the autonomy of both parties is […]

]]> 448db50e8c4e5648aec4fe8a5939d351 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=495 Wed, 19 May 2021 00:08:54 -0400 Affective Medievalism is a kind of manifesto for medieval studies and medievalism studies. It begins with a paradox pointed out by Paul Strohm and others about medievalism: attempts to get at the “real” medieval […]

]]> 842eeb14b98ce37cb8d5c040e42e5c4e Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=476 Thu, 13 May 2021 23:00:19 -0400 So long a nyght ne felte I nevere noon
As was that same, to my jugement.
Whoso that thoghty is, is wo begoon;
The thoghtful wight is vessel of torment;
Ther nis no greef to him equipollent.
He graveth deepest […]

]]> 1d708bee49fbc90a81b89650c5c4238d Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=479 Thu, 13 May 2021 21:03:01 -0400 Knapp argues that bureaucratic identity and scribal labor in the fifteenth century contributed to the literature and overall vernacular landscape. He uses Thomas Hoccleve’s writing, particularly the Series and the […]

]]> 20b00481f293916379c93c154f61f112 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=483 Wed, 12 May 2021 00:25:55 -0400 Lennard J. Davis’s work has been formative for the corpus of disability studies. His concept of the norm was one of the first keywords I came across when I began learning about the field, and it is a concept I […]

]]> 0e8266d9cc2b859c2768a6f523812f09 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=471 Mon, 03 May 2021 22:50:42 -0400 Claire Trenery positions this work as an answer to overly reductive dialogues about medieval madness. She is interested in 12th century miracle stories about individuals being cured of their madness, of which she […]

]]> c97d4c25f125c1e98915b3202e5a347f Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=466 Sun, 02 May 2021 16:13:25 -0400 In her book Feminist, Queer, Crip, Alison Kafer looks to develop a way of talking about disability that recognizes its status as a political identity, and that also imagines a future for disabled people. Attitudes […]

]]> 48286ca4b37eab62ff5e75c0880c8804 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=460 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:32:21 -0400 Cohen argues that medieval pain is an individual phenomenon but also something that’s communal and shared. People either accepted pain as a holy experience, deliberately sought out pain, or ran from pain. Medical […]

]]> afba15b145f3ad8f62aac9d99e495c05 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=455 Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:58:01 -0400 In Disability Aesthetics, Siebers defines aesthetics as what bodies feel in the presence of other bodies. Works of art that engage with bodies, especially in regard to modern art, are also engaging with […]

]]> dccf8d973730603d08d4c9da316355bb Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=435 Sun, 25 Apr 2021 17:59:12 -0400 Spoilers for Arrival (2016) and Thomas Hoccleve’s Series
I watched Arrival for the first time last night, after about 2 years of people telling me to watch it. It’s a film that is all about humans coming into […]

]]> 2fcd7e785967dfd34667dedbc20917ff Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=431 Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:34:48 -0400 In The Melancholy Muse, Carol Falvo Heffernan’s central argument is that Chaucer and Shakespeare, as emblematic authors of their respective periods, had extensive knowledge of the medical discourse of their day […]

]]> 149655cf946124de8790974ca0b15230 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=412 Tue, 20 Apr 2021 19:14:55 -0400 Frederic Jamison’s statement that it is impossible to imagine alternatives to capitalism under capitalism hangs behind this book, which seems to assert that responses to adverse events (including capitalism, but […]

]]> adc90d9503c7e4337d20f4eae6f0562b Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=407 Sun, 18 Apr 2021 20:52:59 -0400 Mitchell argues that we are experiencing a “pictoral turn” which is actually a return to pictures as an interplay between people, institutions, and looking. It is the realization that spectatorship is as important […]

]]> 2d59d1994b0fe603643be7a2462ddd21 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=400 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:34:56 -0400 This is one primary text I am using that doesn’t contain an explicit mention of sorrow or melancholy. I am mainly interested in it because of its associations with earth and the extended descriptions of […]

]]> c7cd451ec52c1f0260bc7f352a1ab256 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=393 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 20:49:57 -0400 I am reading this immediately after Book of the Duchess, so I guess it’s inevitable that there will be some crossover between the two. The most immediate difference from that poem, although they begin almost […]

]]> 99aff0da823c363b1ad82bc56e1cc7e7 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=382 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:16:24 -0400 I finished reading Camera Lucida this morning later than I meant to, because I got distracted by reading this article in Esquire by Jeff Sharlet titled “All That We’ve Lost”. Sharlet has spent this year tweeting […]

]]> 7b48710ff857f2c0b74bef693ae711b0 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=362 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 20:32:56 -0400 My interest in “Book of the Duchess” is chiefly on this passage, the narrator’s description of his feeling, which comes in the first few lines of the poem:

Al is ylyche good to me —
Joye or sorowe, wherso hyt […]

]]> c9e0e10332506ef2dc659477ca029e85 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=356 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:54:11 -0400 The Ruins Lesson is a history of the social and artistic function of ruins from late antiquity to the twentieth century, mostly focused on the Roman empire, the Renaissance, and the Romantics. She is interested in […]

]]> cc7db598ef507fa755e7654eac21b2b2 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=343 Wed, 07 Apr 2021 16:24:27 -0400 In her book Generations of Feeling, Barbara Roswenwein is interested in providing a history of emotions that crosses the medieval/modern divide, giving us a genealogy of different ways of conceptualizing emotions. […]

]]> 70ad126e69472f5530daf96fbf29ed8f Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=334 Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:06:59 -0400 Garland-Thompson is interested in the cultural status of the stare– what it does, and how it can be used. Staring, she argues, is a social taboo, which is seen as isolating, dominating and othering. However, […]

]]> bb32c8c9dd12e494ad95ed66498144e9 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=325 Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:56:37 -0400 This collection of essays aims to present a view of medieval madness and legal reactions to it. In contrast to previous study on madness in the medieval period, which often claims medieval people with madness were […]

]]> ff4f94b08580f03ac763b571980c431f Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=316 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 21:50:41 -0400 I am really excited about this article, because it brings together several things I want to write about more: labor, ecological/material viewpoints on literature, and affect. This essay’s project is to examine the […]

]]> 17b86e6c7f341406e5b0123d5c502899 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=318 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:21:14 -0400 Sontag’s essays on photography revolve around the question of what photography is, and what it does. While photographs seems like reality, they are actually more like paintings: they don’t reflect reality, they […]

]]> 688e9a402fc8e1175b887009fbfe5808 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=293 Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:43:01 -0400 Following are my notes on Rebekah M. Fowler’s dissertation “Mourning, Melancholia and Masculinity in English Literature”. Fowler wants to explore a pattern of emotion that
consists of love, loss, grief madness […]

]]> f23e5dcae51a0a149e5adc92c913f55f Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=302 Sun, 14 Mar 2021 23:38:43 -0400 I am rereading the first three chapters of Madness and Civilization, a book that I had a mildly antagonistic relationship to when I read it two years ago. While I can’t say my feelings have changed, I did notice a […]

]]> 9c15604fa6afcbd34c9dbddf72cab8cf Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=285 Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:32:07 -0500 This extensive study is attempting to do two things: provide a history of cultural medieval affect in particular, and rehabilitate the status of affect studies in general. Arguing that emotion has been neglected, […]

]]> 5046b473bcb57f39fb7540527fde4047 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=273 Mon, 08 Mar 2021 21:21:30 -0500 Some of them [melancholics] imagine that they do not have a head. We saw something of the sort close to the city of Kairouan. We burdened his [the patient’s] head with a qalansuwa (tiara) which we made of lead a […]

]]> 16d40b781696b23d8e3b491e3f757671 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site The End Times: Approaches to the Apocalypse https://esaapocalypse.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=40 Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:06:14 -0500 A new week begins, and it’s almost time for the ESA Conference! We are excited to welcome you virtually to the Graduate Center for “The End Times: Approaches to the Apocalypse”. We will be live tweeting the event […]

]]> 52ed07a36ea42a8fdd3048acf69b9171 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=265 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:40:51 -0500 I’m unsure how to begin to write about something that is essentially a collection of lists and attributions. Anatomy of Melancholy begins with a series of portraits of the different kinds of melancholy, as well as […]

]]> 475355bdc5e9343f556d4c78028f199c Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=259 Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:06:20 -0500 Building on Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”, “Introjection vs. Incorporation” critiques Freud and Melanie Klein by exploring the origin of “fantasy”, which they define as the opposition to reality. There are […]

]]> 7cf9c7eb60928b9b1ec8547a257aee66 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=253 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 22:48:31 -0500 In Symptomatic Subjects, Orlemanski investigates the use of “terms of physik” in literary writing in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, a time which saw an enormous proliferation of medical material. The later […]

]]> a601961b83b20e5a325df1b201f9ae9e Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=247 Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:43:40 -0500 Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia distinguishes between the two on the basis of self-knowledge. Melancholia is related to an “object loss which is lost from consciousness”– the melancholic might know rationally […]

]]> ad202c20dbbe6ac959d0e95c9d88f7cf Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=239 Mon, 15 Feb 2021 22:47:51 -0500 In The Melancholy Assemblage, Drew Daniel claims that melancholy in the early modern period constitutes an epistemological-affective assemblage, a collection of factors that is always plural; it emerges in […]

]]> 277538813af06c39ffb4567bc98c2774 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=233 Sat, 06 Feb 2021 02:11:55 -0500 I am returning to Michael Camille’s work after some time, and reading the entirety of Image on the Edge for the first time. Camille’s central argument is fairly simple: that margins and their relationship to […]

]]> 0bff60b5bbce6efd2c93087e115e9e36 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=224 Mon, 01 Feb 2021 22:30:33 -0500 Amy Hollywood’s collection of essays is about the experiences of medieval mystics and other religious women, and modern attempts to reckon with and define their experiences. As she mentions in the first section of […]

]]> 1a555f2ca9978451797b65d5a3c558f5 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=217 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 19:03:38 -0500 This poem appears in a volume titled “The Minor Poems of John Lydgate”, and it is indeed minor (about 12 pages). I know next to nothing about Lydgate, but learned that he was a prodigious poet and friends with […]

]]> 3e77e3c6c6f3e6991c2eff4554d8665e Emily Price created the site The End Times: Approaches to the Apocalypse https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/734503/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:11:31 -0500 dd3b38a759c424d7ab44d335a02853cb Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=178 Mon, 18 Jan 2021 03:38:49 -0500 This book was my first (purposeful) departure into cinema studies since reading Lynda Nead in undergrad. It is also a book about new media (useful for my other work as a freelancer writing about new media), and […]

]]> 9d22b2eea4efa4cf65fca332debcdf67 Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=150 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:47:05 -0400 Following the advice of my colleague Olivia Wood, I’ve decided to blog about the contents of my orals lists as I read. I haven’t decided yet whether everything will make it up here, nor whether the contents will […]

]]> 6cc1dacb2da9225e662c362b357ddfad Emily Price joined the group Sound Studies and Methods Working Group #GCDISound https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/691165/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 19:23:33 -0400 3bc7c9f2ef5b74ed764841d0d0f93ffd Emily Price wrote a new post on the site Emily A. Price https://emilyprice.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=114 Sat, 22 Feb 2020 16:35:15 -0500 I am very pleased to announce that the Hoccleve Society has published my translation of Thomas Hoccleve’s “Ballades to Henry Somer”, a series of letter-poems in Middle English written in the early fifteenth […]

]]> 5a2b8bf067007a0c9a19493be0187b23 Emily Price created the site Emily A. Price https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/651568/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 15:32:23 -0500 0475c0a4f0e54ac686f0d6cab021afbd Emily Price joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/587732/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 21:32:07 -0400 d481db8d28fe956cc749c7b376b9e05a Emily Price's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/567855/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 19:17:31 -0400 0bf7bb8d8108ff4eaa056dd87794fee3 Emily Price joined the group CUNY Games Network https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/567853/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 18:56:56 -0400 eb930c6c6015af36cb834ea5e34788c5 Emily Price's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/533255/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 17:48:24 -0500 ee2aa6361917aa8d3954df5493696c49 Emily Price changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/533016/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:56:09 -0400 69e4cfb60f2bdbb23d7ec9b089e67e91 Emily Price edited the blog post Emily Price, English in the group Pearl Kibre Medieval Study https://pkms.commons.gc.cuny.edu/emily-price-english/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 14:11:39 -0400 Medieval theories of emotion, manuscript studies, disability studies, medieval medicine

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