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 Benjamin’s statement that fascism gives tools for expression but not for political change. She is interested in “affective gaps and illegibilities”,… Continue reading Sianne Ngai, Ugly Feelings
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Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes
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 of seeknesses alle: Ful wo is him that in swich thoght is falle. (ll.78-84) The… Continue reading Hoccleve, Regiment of Princes
Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse
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 Regiment of Princes, to make this argument. Hoccleve is not merely a “genetic” descendent of Chaucer, as he has been treated in the past, but… Continue reading Ethan Knapp, The Bureaucratic Muse
