Joseph J. Duggan

Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of French

Selected Publications

Listed in reverse chronological order

Books

La Chanson de Roland; the Song of Roland: The French Corpus. Preliminaries: General Introduction, Editing the Song of Roland by Joseph J. Duggan; Concordance of Laisses by Karen Akiyama; Works Cited. Part 1: the Oxford Version, ed. Ian Short. Part 2: the Venice 4 Version, ed. Robert F. Cook. Part 3: the Châteauroux - Venice 7 Version, ed. Joseph J. Duggan. Part 4: the Paris Version, ed. Annalee C. Rejhon. Part 5: the Cambridge Version, ed. Wolfgang G. van Emden. Part 6: the Lyon Version, ed. William W. Kibler. Part 7: the Fragments, ed. William W. Kibler. 3 vols. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005. Pp. xiv, 2917

The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.

The "Cantar de mio Cid": Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social Contexts. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 6. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 178

A New Fragment of "Les Enfances Vivien": National Library of Wales Manuscript 5043E. University of California Publications in Modern Philology, 116. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. ix, 44

A Guide to Studies on the "Chanson de Roland." Research Bibliographies and Checklists, 15. London: Grant & Cutler, Ltd., 1976. Pp. 133

The "Song of Roland": Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft. Publications of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 6. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1973. Pp. 226. [Chapter 2 reprinted in Oral-Formulaic Theory: A Folklore Casebook, ed. John Miles Foley (Garland Folklore Casebooks, 5; New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1990), pp. 83-108.]

A Concordance of the "Chanson de Roland." Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1969. Pp. 420

Edited Volumes

John L. Grigsby. The Gab as a Latent Genre in Medieval French Literature: Drinking and Boasting in the Middle Ages. Medieval Academy Books, 103. Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America, 2000.

With Charles B. Faulhaber. Yakov Malkiel, A Tentative Autobibliography. With an Introduction by Henry Kahane. Romance Philology, Special Issue, 1988-1989. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. Pp. xxxi, 186

Oral Literature: Seven Essays. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1975. Pp. vii, 107. [Essays by Albert B. Lord, Daniel F. Melia, Donald K. Fry, Franz H. Bäuml and Edda Spielman, L. P. Harvey, Elizabeth Warner, and me; first appeared as a special issue of the journal Forum for Modern Language Studies, volume 10 (1974), number 3.]

Articles

“Medieval Epic and History in the Romance Literatures.”  Forthcoming in the proceedings of the conference on Epic and History, Ancient and Medieval, held at Brown University, December 1-3, 2006, edited by Kurt Raaflaub and David Konstan in a volume in the series “The Ancient World: Comparative History” (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008)

“Turoldus, Scribe or Author? Evidence from the Corpus of the Chansons de Geste”  Forthcoming in Studies in Honor of William W. Kibler 

“The Trial Scene in the Rhymed Chanson de Roland.”  Forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of the Société Rencesvals pour l’Etude des Epopées Romanes, Storrs, Connecticut, July 22-28, 2006

“Guilhem IX of Aquitaine’s Poem about Nothing (PC 183, 7) and the Generation of Meaning.” Catherine Bel, Pascale Dumont, and Frank Willaert, eds. “Contez me tout”: Mélanges de langue et de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet, 813-23.  La République des Lettres, 28.   Louvain: Peeters, 2006

"Beyond the Oxford Text: The Songs of Roland." To appear in Approaches to Teaching the Song of Roland, ed. William W. Kibler and Leslie Zarker Morgan. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2006.

“Garin le Loherain Between Assonance and Rhyme: Version R, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, MS. UCB 72.” Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire 83 (2005), 707-22

"General Introduction: Editing the Song of Roland." In La Chanson de Roland; The Song of Roland: The French Corpus, 5-38. Turnhout (Belgium): Brepols Publishing, 2005

"La France des Plantagenêts dans les versions rimées de la Chanson de Roland." Carlos Alvar and Juan Paredes, ed. Les Chanson de Geste: Actes du XVI Congrès de la Société Rencesvals pour l'Etude des Epopées Romanes, Granada, 21-25 juillet 2003, 205-14. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2005

"The Interface Between Oral and Written Transmission of the Cantar de mio Cid." La Corónica 33, no. 2 (2005): 51-63

"Chanson de Guillaume, l. 103: Oral Composition and Textual Criticism." To be published in Olifant 23 (2004), no. 2

"The Antecedents of Epic Versification in Medieval French, Spanish, and Occitan." Samuel G. Armistead and Mishael Caspi, ed. Jewish Culture and the Hispanic World: Studies in Memory of Joseph Silverman, 161-77. Newark, Delaware: Juan de la Cuesta, 2001.

"Prolégomènes à une pragmatique textuelle de la chanson de geste." Salvatore Longo, ed. L'Epopée romane au moyen âge et aux temps modernes: Actes du XIVe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l'Etude des Epopées Romanes, 427-48. Naples: Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001.

"Suzanne Fleischman, October 25, 1948&endash;February 2, 2000." Tenso 15 (2000), 74-79. [Necrology]

"The Song of Roland." Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, 156-59. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

"The Cantar de mio Cid." Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, 132-34. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.

"Afterword." Burton Raffel, trans. Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Tale of the Grail, 293-310. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

"Modalità della cultura orale." Piero Boitani, Mario Mancini, and Alberto Várvaro, ed. Lo Spazio letterario del medioevo. 2. Il Medioevo volgare, 147-77. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1999.

"L'épisode d'Aupais dans Girart de Roussillon." Reading Around the Epic: Studies in Honour of Wolfgang van Emden, 11-23. King's College London Medieval Studies, 14. London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 1998

"Afterword." Burton Raffel, trans. Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, 215-33. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997

"Afterword." Burton Raffel, trans. Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart, 226-41. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997

"Afterword." Burton Raffel, trans. Chrétien de Troyes, Erec and Enide, 221-36. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996

"Troubadour Word-Play and the Case of 'n'Eblo'." Nancy van Deusen, ed. The Cultural Milieu of the Troubadours and Trouvères, 9-15. Musicological Studies, 62/1. Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1994

"A False Sentencia de Toledo, the Legend of the Cid's Illegitimacy, and the Question of his Nephews." Romance Philology 48 (1994), 95-110

"L'Episode d'Aude dans la tradition en rime de la Chanson de Roland." Charlemagne in the North: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference of the Société Rencesvals, Edinburgh, 4th-11th August 1991, ed. Philip E. Bennett, Anne Elizabeth Cobby, and Graham A. Runnals, 273-79. Edinburgh: Société Rencesvals, British Branch, 1993; distributed by Grant & Cutler, Ltd., London

"Le jeu dans les chansons de geste." Jeu et Sports en Méditerranée: Actes du colloque de Carthage, 7-8-9 Novembre 1989, 99-100. Tunis: Alif, 1992

"El juicio de Ganelón y el mito del pecado de Carlomagno en la versión de Oxford de la Chanson de Roland." Mythopoesis: Literatura, totalidad, ideología, 53-64. Ed. Joan Ramon Resina. Ambitos Literarios/Ensayo, 42. Barcelona: Anthropos, Editorial del Hombre, 1992

"Elpha and Alamos in the Cantar de mio Cid, with Some Observations on Tizón." Olifant 17 (1992): 29-50

"Franco-German Conflict and the History of French Scholarship on the Song of Roland." Hermeneutics and Medieval Culture, ed. Helen Damico and Patrick J. Gallacher, 97-106. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1989

"Performance and Transmission, Aural and Ocular Reception in the Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Vernacular Literature of France." Romance Philology 43 (1989) [special issue in memory of Alison Elliott]: 49-58

"1095: Pope Urban II Proclaims the First Crusade. Epic and History." Denis Hollier, ed., Harvard History of French Literature, 18-23. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1989

"Oral Performance of Romance in Medieval France." Continuations: Essays on Medieval French Literature and Language in Honor of John Lambert Grigsby, 51-62. Edited by Norris J. Lacy and Gloria Torrini-Roblin. Birmingham, Alabama: Summa Publications, 1989

"Afterword." Burton Raffel, trans. Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, 205-26. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987

"Looking Back Twice: The Nineteenth-Century Reception of Medieval Historiography and the Scholarly Tradition." Grundriss der Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters. Vol. 11: La Littérature historiographique des origines à 1500, 1: Partie historique, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Ursula Link-Heer, and Peter-Michael Spangenberg, 50-53. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1986

"The Experience of Time as a Fundamental Element of the Stock of Knowledge in Medieval Society." Grundriss der Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters. Vol. 11: La Littérature historiographique des origines à 1500, 1: Partie historique, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Ursula Link-Heer, and Peter-Michael Spangenberg, 127-34. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1986

"Medieval Epic as Popular Historiography: Appropriation of Historical Knowledge in the Vernacular Epic." Grundriss der Romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters. Vol. 11: La Littérature historiographique des origines à 1500, 1: Partie historique, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Ursula Link-Heer, and Peter-Michael Spangenberg, 285-311. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1986

"Social Functions of the Medieval Epic in the Romance Literatures." Oral Tradition 1 (1986), 728-66

"Die zwei `Epochen' der Chanson de Geste." Epochenschwellen und Epochenstrukturen im Diskurs der Literatur- und Sprachhistorie, ed. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht and Ursula Link-Heer, 389-408. Suhrkamp Taschenbücher, 486. Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp, 1985

"The Manuscript Corpus of the Medieval Romance Epic." The Medieval Alexander Legend and Romance Epic: Essays in Honour of David J. A. Ross, ed. Peter Noble, Lucie Polak, and Claire Isoz, 29-42. Millwood, New York, London, England, and Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus International Publications, 1983

"The Chanson de Roland and the chansons de geste." European Writers: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. William T. H. Jackson. Editor-in-Chief, George Stade. Vol. 1: Prudentius to Medieval Drama. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983. Pp. 89-111

"The Thief Basin and the Legend of Charlemagne: Was There a Chanson du Couronnement de Charlemagne?" VIII Congreso de la Société Rencesvals, ed. Martín de Riquer, 107-15. Pamplona: Institución Príncipe de Viana, Diputación Foral de Navarra, 1981

"La Théorie de la composition orale des chansons de geste: Les faits et les interprétations." Olifant 8 (1980-81), 238-55

"Le Mode de composition des chansons de geste: Analyse statistique, jugement esthétique, modèles de transmission." Olifant 8 (1980-81), 286-316

"Legitimation and the Hero's Exemplary Function in the Cantar de mio Cid and the Chanson de Roland." Oral Traditional Literature: A Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord, ed. John Miles Foley, 217-34. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1981. Repr. in: Marie Lazzari, Epics for Students. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999

"Ambiguity in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century French and Provençal Literature: A Problem or a Value?" John Misrahi Memorial Volume: Studies in Medieval Literature, ed. Hans R. Runte, Henri Niedzielski, and William L. Hendrickson, 136-49. Columbia, S.C.: French Literature Publications Company, 1977

"The Generation of the Episode of Baligant: Charlemagne's Dreams and the Normans at Mantzikert." Romance Philology 30 (1976-77), 59-82

"Formulaic Diction in the Cantar de mio Cid and the Old French Epic." Forum for Modern Language Studies 10 (1974), 260-69. Reprinted in Oral Literature: Seven Essays (see above), pp. 74-83

"Oral Composition in the Old French Epic: A Computer-Aided Method of Formula Analysis." [In Hebrew, with English summary.] Hasifrut 4 (1973), 488-96

"Yvain's Good Name: The Unity of Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier au lion." Orbis Litterarum 24 (1969), 112-29

"Virgilian Inspiration in the Roman d'Enéas and the Chanson de Roland." Medieval Epic to the Epic Theater of Brecht, ed. Rosario P. Armato and John M. Spalek, 9-23. University of Southern California Publications in Comparative Literature, 1. Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1968

"Formulas in the Couronnement de Louis." Romania 87 (1966), 315-44

Translations

With Ulrike Müller-Charles. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "'Un Souffle d'Allemagne ayant passé': Friedrich Diez, Gaston Paris, and the Genesis of National Philologies." Romance Philology 40 (1986-87), 1-37. [From the German.]

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, "Strangeness as a Requirement for Topicality: Medieval Literature and Reception Theory." L'Esprit Créateur 21 (1981), 5-12. [From the German.]

Review Article

"Editing Medieval Texts: How to Do it." [Review of: Vinton A. Dearing, Principles and Practice of Textual Analysis, 1974; Alfred Foulet and Mary Blakely Speer, On Editing Old French Texts, 1979; Christopher Kleinhenz, ed., Medieval Manuscripts and Textual Criticism, 1976; and Rupert T. Pickens, ed., The Songs of Jaufre Rudel, 1978.] University Publishing 9 (summer, 1980), pp. 12, 17

Book Reviews

Carol Sweetenham and Linda M. Paterson, ed. The Canso d'Antioca. An Occitan epic chronicle of the First Crusade. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003. Jan A. Nelson, ed. La Chanson d'Antioche. The Old French Crusade Cycle, 4. Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press, 2003. Speculum 81 (2006), 609-12.

Ásdís R. Magnúsdóttir. La Voix du cor: La relique de Roncevaux et l'origine d'un motif dans la littérature du Moyen Âge (XIIe-XIVe siècles). Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 31. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. Speculum 77 (2002), 591-93.

Noëlle Laborderie, ed. Hugues Capet, chanson de geste du XIVe siècle. Classiques Français du Moyen Age, 122. Paris: Champion, 1997. Speculum, forthcoming.

David Bynum, The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns, 1978. Speculum 60 (1985), 659-62

Samuel G. Armistead, "The Mocedades de Rodrigo and Neo-Individualist Theory." Olifant 8 (1980-81), 99-100

Frederick Goldin, tr., The Song of Roland, 1978, and Guérard Piffard, tr., A Translation of the "Song of Roland", 1978. Romance Philology 34 (1981), Special Issue, pp. *267-*273

Gerard J. Brault, ed. and tr., The Song of Roland: An Analytical Edition. Speculum 56 (1981), 355-58

A. T. Hatto, ed., The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy-Khan (Kökötöydün Asi): A Kirghiz Epic Poem, 1979. Comparative Literature 33 (1981), 86-87

Orest R. Ochrymowycz, Aspects of Oral Style in the "Romances juglarescos" of the Carolingian Cycle, 1975. Hispanic Review 46 (1978), 248-50

Guérard Piffard, tr., A Translation of the Cycle of William of Orange, 3 vols., 1977. Romance Philology 31 (1977), 441-43

Kerstin Schlyter, Les Enumérations des personnages dans la "Chanson de Roland": Etude comparative, 1974. Speculum 52 (1977), 426-29

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Funktionswandel und Rezeption: Studien zur Hyperbolik in literarischen Texten des romanischen Mittelalters, 1972. Speculum 50 (1975), 494-96

Robert F. Cook and Larry S. Crist, Le Deuxième cycle de la croisade: Deux études sur son développement, 1972. Romance Philology 28 (1974), 149-50

Christopher Storey, ed., La Vie de S. Alexis, 1968. Romance Philology 27 (1973), 134-35

Simone Monsonégo, Etude stylo-statistique du vocabulaire des vers et de la prose dans la chantefable "Aucassin et Nicolette", 1966. Romance Philology 23 (1969), 253-54

Charles Muller and Bernard Pottier, ed. Statistique et analyse linguistique, 1966. Romance Philology 22 (1968), 44-47

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