Catherine Rose Attwood

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Biography

Since my undergraduate days my principal area of research interest has been medieval French literature, in particular 14th and 15th century lyric poetry. In addition, the study of Troubadour poetry has led me to an interest in modern Occitan language and culture.

Research Summary

I have just completed a book for Editions Champion, Paris, on Fortune and the writer.

Recent Publications

• ATTWOOD, C., 2007. La dialectique amoureuse chez Othon de Grandson. In: KOSTA-THÉFFAINE, J.-F., ed., Othon de Grandson, chevalier et poète Orléans: Editions Paradigme. 85-101
• ATTWOOD, C., 2007. <i>Fortune la contrefaite</i>: l'envers de l'écriture médiévale Paris: Champion.
• ATTWOOD, C., 2006. A propos du "Livre de Joie" chez Charles d'Orléans. In: VAN HEMELRYCK, T. and VAN HOOREBEECK, C., eds., L'écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen Âge Turnhout: Brepols. 35-42
• ATTWOOD, C., 2004. Foehr-Janssens, Yasmina and Emmanuelle Metry (eds), La Fortune: themes, representations, discours Medium Ævum. Volume 73(Part 1), 140-141

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Past Research

My doctoral thesis examined the poetic 'I' in 14th and 15th century French lyric poetry. The final chapter of this work, 'The "I" Divided', discussed the poetics of debate, a subject which has led me to my current research on the impact of 'double' Fortune on the writer.

Future Research

The central section of the third chapter of my recent book on Fortune discusses the relationship between Fortune and the prisoner, and the ways in which medieval prisoners considered themselves not only the victims, but also the scribes of Fortune. I aim to develop this area of research into a fuller investigation of prison writing, both medieval and modern.

• ATTWOOD, C., 2007. La dialectique amoureuse chez Othon de Grandson. In: KOSTA-THÉFFAINE, J.-F., ed., Othon de Grandson, chevalier et poète Orléans: Editions Paradigme. 85-101
• ATTWOOD, C., 2007. <i>Fortune la contrefaite</i>: l'envers de l'écriture médiévale Paris: Champion.
• ATTWOOD, C., 2006. A propos du "Livre de Joie" chez Charles d'Orléans. In: VAN HEMELRYCK, T. and VAN HOOREBEECK, C., eds., L'écrit et le manuscrit à la fin du Moyen Âge Turnhout: Brepols. 35-42
• ATTWOOD, C., 2004. Foehr-Janssens, Yasmina and Emmanuelle Metry (eds), La Fortune: themes, representations, discours Medium Ævum. Volume 73(Part 1), 140-141
• ATTWOOD, C., 2001. Temps et lieux de Souvenir. Le <i>Voir Dit</i> de Guillaume de Machaut. In: HÜE, D., ed., "Comme mon coeur désire": Le Livre du Voir Dit Orléans: Paradigme. 235-256
• ATTWOOD, C., 2000. The Image in the Fountain: Fortune, Fiction and Femininity in the <em>Livre du Voir Dit</em> of Guillaume de Machaut. In: ATTWOOD, C., ed., Fortune and Women in Medieval Literature (Special Issue of Nottingham French Studies) 38.2 (Autumn 1999). 137-149
• ATTWOOD, C., ed., 2000. Fortune and Women in Medieval Literature (Special Issue of Nottingham French Studies) Nottingham : University of Nottingham.
• ATTWOOD, C., 1999. Fortune et le 'moi' écrivant à la fin du moyen âge: Autour de la <I>Mutacion de fortune</I> de Christine de Pizan. In: KING, R., ed., Le Moi: Essais sur la Littérature Française et francophone: I (Actes de la Journée d'études Nottingham/Strasbourg, April 1998) Nottingham : University of Nottingham. 25-43
• ATTWOOD, C., 1998. Dynamic dichotomy : the poetic "I" in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French lyric poetry Amsterdam : Rodopi.