Robert Levine
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ProfessorBA, City University of New York
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Teaching and Research Interests
- Medieval literature
- Comparative literature
- Historical texts as literature
Selected Publications
- “Patronage and Erotic Rhetoric in the Sixth Century: the case of Venantius Fortunatus,” in Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, edited by Albrecht Classen, ACMRS, Tempe, (2008), pp. 75–93
- (Transl.) “Mohamlet in Manhattan,” by Albert Ehrenstein, [with Sheldon Gilman], Pusteblume I (Spring 2007), pp. 13–19
- (Transl.) The Prose and Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein (2000)
- (Transl.) A Thirteenth-Century Life of Charlemagne (third volume of Les Grandes Chroniques) (1991)
- (Transl.) Guibert de Nogent’s Gesta Dei per Francos, Boydell and Brewer (1997)
- (Transl.) France before Charlemagne (first two volumes of Viard’s edition of Les Grandes Chroniques) (1990)
- A Thirteenth-Century Minstrel’s Chronicle (Recit d’un menestrel de Reims) (1990)
- “The Pious Traitor: the Man who Betrayed Antioch” in Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXXIII (1998)
- “Who composed Havelok for whom?” in Yearbook for English Studies XXII (1992)
- “Gower as Gerontion; Oneiric Autobiography in the Confessio Amantis,” Medieaevistik 5 (1992)
- “Baptizing Pirates: Argumentum and Fabula in Norman Historia,”Mediaevisitik 4 (1991); “Prudentius’s Romanus: the rhetorician as hero, martyr and saint,” Rhetorica IX (1991); “Deadly Diatribe in the Récits d’un ménestrel de Reims,” Res Publica Litterarum XIV (1991)
- “Liudprand of Cremona: History and Debasement in the Tenth Century,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXVI 1991)
- “Exploiting Ovid: Medieval Allegorizations of the Metamorphoses,” Medioevo Romanzo XIV (1989)
- “Satiric Vulgarity in Guibert de Nogent’s Gesta Dei per Francos,” Rhetorica 7 (1989)
- “How to read Walter Map,” Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch XXIII (1988); “Restraining Ambiguities in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyda,” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen LXXXVII (1986)
- “Why praise Jews; History and Satire in the Middle Ages,” Journal of Medieval History XII (1986)
- “Myth and Anti-Myth in Cuvelier’s La Vie Vaillante de Bertrand Du Guesclin,”Viator XVI (1985)
- “Wolfram von Eschenbach: Homo Ludens,” Viator XIII (1982)
- “Aspects of Grotesque Realism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” Chaucer Review XVII (1982)
- “The Pearl-Child: Topos and Archetype in the Middle English Pearl,” Medievalia et Humanistica VIII (1977); “Repression in Cligès,” Sub/Stance XV (1976)
- “Ingeld and Christ: a Medieval Problem,” Viator II (1971); (Transl.) Excerpts from Reiner Zimnick’s Die Trömmler für eine Bessere Zeit, in Chelsea Review 3 (1959), pp. 44–56.
Work in Progress
- A translation of Else Lasker-Schüler, My Heart (forthcoming)