Carol Braun Pasternack (1950 – September 2, 2020) was a professor of medieval English literature and language at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) from 1988 to 2013.[1] She chaired the Medieval Studies department, and was also Dean of Summer Sessions at UCSB in 2011–2013.[1]
Her research interests included history of the English language, Old and Middle English literature, theories concerning oral tradition (especially the techniques of scops or oral poets) and textual transmission of early medieval texts, feminist approaches to medieval literature, and sex and gender in the early Middle Ages.
Her first monograph was The Textuality of Old English Poetry, published by Cambridge University Press in 1995.[2] In The Textuality of Old English Poetry, Pasternack argued for the techniques of transmission of oral and textual poetry: "In a primary oral culture, to solve effectively the problem of retaining and retrieving carefully articulated thought, you have to do your thinking in mnemonic patterns, shaped for ready oral recurrence." (p. 62), and "Whenever scribes who are part of the oral traditional culture write or copy traditional oral works, they do not merely mechanically hand them down; they rehear them, 'mouth' them, 'reperform' them in the act of writing in such a way that the text may change but remain authentic, just as a completely oral poet's text changes from performance to performance without losing authenticity" (p. 27). Rosamund S. Allen, writing in the Modern Language Review in 1997 praised Pasternack for "establishing new ways of reading Old English [...] reject[ing] the 'New Critical' mode of treating Old English poems like modern written texts, with definable boundaries and an identifiable author. Bridging the divide between oral and written texts that seems to invest much recent discussion, Pasternack instead invites readers to consider these both as inscribed texts and recordings of previously performed verse, which present aural rather than visual cues".[3]
"Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood", Anglo-Saxon England 1984 volume 13, 167–186.
Her article "Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer's textuality" was published in the journal Anglo-Saxon England, Volume 20 (December 1991) 99-122.[5] Writing in Neophilologus journal, Ronald J. Ganze identifies Pasternack's major intervention being that she "posits a polyphony of voices rather than the traditional one or two speakers" for the Old English Wanderer poem.[6]
Pasternack's chapter "PostStructuralist Theories: The Subject and the Text" features in Reading Old English Texts (1997) edited by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe and published by Cambridge University Press.[7] Greg Waite reviewed the book for Parergon journal, and noted that Pasternack's article "ranges over Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, Kristeva, Foucault and others before moving into a brief post-structuralist reading of Beowulf".[8]
Co-editor
With A. N. Doane (1991) Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages[9]
With Sharon Farmer (2003) Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages[10]
With Lisa C. M. Weston (2004) Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gilmore Calder[11]
Mary Dockray-Miller notes that Pasternack and Weston's edited collection is "the only essay collection focused exclusively on issues of sexuality and gender in pre- Conquest England [...] an enormously useful and comprehensive overview of the history of sexuality studies in general, in medieval scholarship more particularly, and in Anglo-Saxon studies most specifically."[12]
Personal life
Pasternack died on September 2, 2020, at the age of 70, due to brain cancer.[1] She was working on the book Sex, Text, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England.[13]
References
^ abcde"Carol Braun Pasternack". The Santa Barbara Independent. 2020-09-08. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
^Pasternack, Carol Braun (1995). The textuality of old english poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN978-0-521-46549-6. OCLC 804844474.
^Allen, Rosamund S. (1997-07-01). "Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry". The Modern Language Review. 92 (3): 682–685. doi:10.2307/3733397. JSTOR 3733397.
Allen, Rosamund S. (July 1997). "Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry and Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry". The Modern Language Review. 92 (3): 682–685. doi:10.2307/3733397. JSTOR 3733397.
Hill, Joyce (1997-09-22). "Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry". Medium Aevum. 66 (2): 314–317.
Magennis, Hugh (January 1997). "Review of Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry and The Textuality of Old English Poetry". English Studies. 78 (1): 78–83. doi:10.1080/00138389708599063.
Momma, Haruko (July 2000). "Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry". Speculum. 75 (3): 721–723. doi:10.2307/2903431. JSTOR 2903431.
Stanley, E. G. (1996-06-01). "Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry". Notes and Queries. 43 (2): 196–200. doi:10.1093/nq/43.2.196.
^Pasternack, Carol Braun (1991). "Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer's textuality". Anglo-Saxon England. 20: 99–122. doi:10.1017/S0263675100001770. ISSN 1474-0532. S2CID 161579342.
^Ganze, Ronald J. (2005-10-01). "From AnhagaTo Snottor: The Wanderer's Kierkegaardian Epiphany". Neophilologus. 89 (4): 629–640. doi:10.1007/s11061-005-0530-z. ISSN 1572-8668. S2CID 170701529.
^Pasternack, Carol Braun (1997). "Post-structuralist theories: the subject and the text". In O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien (ed.). Reading Old English Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 170–191. ISBN978-0-521-46970-8. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
^Waite, Greg (1999). "Review: Reading Old English Texts". Parergon. 17 (1): 256. doi:10.1353/pgn.1999.0101. ISSN 1832-8334. S2CID 144773987.
^Review of Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages:
Classen, Albrecht (1993). "Review of Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages". Mediaevistik. 6: 291–293. JSTOR 42584025.
Green, D. H. (October 1994). "Review of Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages". The Modern Language Review. 89 (4): 957–958. doi:10.2307/3733904. JSTOR 3733904.
Morgan, Gerald (October 1993). "Review of Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 92 (4): 537–539. JSTOR 27710901.
Volk-Birke, Sabine (April 1994). "Review of Vox intexta: Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages". Speculum. 69 (2): 458–460. doi:10.2307/2865118. JSTOR 2865118.
Hansen, Elaine Tuttle (April 1994). "Medieval Literary Studies: A View from the Early 1990s". Journal of British Studies. 33 (2): 204–210. doi:10.1086/386051. JSTOR 175911. S2CID 227276884.
^Kelly, Kathleen Coyne (Winter 2004). "Review of Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages". Arthuriana. 14 (4): 84–86. doi:10.1353/art.2004.0053. JSTOR 27870662. S2CID 161459507.
^Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England:
Chance, Jane (August 2006). "Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England". Modern Philology. 104 (1): 111–115. doi:10.1086/510267. JSTOR 10.1086/510267.
Mearns, Adam (April 2007). "Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England". The Modern Language Review. 102 (2): 476–477. doi:10.2307/20467299. JSTOR 20467299.
Traxel, Oliver M. (2008). "Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England". Mediaevistik. 21: 295–298. JSTOR 42586682.
Treharne, Elaine (April 2006). "Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England". The Review of English Studies. New Series. 57 (229): 262–264. doi:10.1093/res/hgl027. JSTOR 4095477.
Waugh, Robin (October 2007). "Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 106 (4): 526–528. doi:10.2307/27712693. JSTOR 27712693. S2CID 254481510.
^Dockray Miller, Mary (2008). "Old English Literature and Feminist Theory: A State of the Field". Literature Compass. 5 (6): 1049–1059. doi:10.1111/j.1741-4113.2008.00581.x.
^"Pasternack, Carol Braun | English Department UCSB". www.english.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-12.
January 10, 2023
carol, braun, pasternack, 1950, september, 2020, professor, medieval, english, literature, language, university, california, santa, barbara, ucsb, from, 1988, 2013, chaired, medieval, studies, department, also, dean, summer, sessions, ucsb, 2011, 2013, born195. Carol Braun Pasternack 1950 September 2 2020 was a professor of medieval English literature and language at the University of California Santa Barbara UCSB from 1988 to 2013 1 She chaired the Medieval Studies department and was also Dean of Summer Sessions at UCSB in 2011 2013 1 Carol Braun PasternackBorn1950 1950 Died 2020 09 02 September 2 2020 aged 70 1 Santa Barbara CaliforniaAcademic backgroundAlma materUniversity of California Los AngelesAcademic workDisciplineMedieval English Literature and LanguageNotable worksThe Textuality of Old English Poetry Contents 1 Education 2 Research 3 Selected publications 3 1 Co editor 4 Personal life 5 ReferencesEducation EditPasternack received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in 1983 1 Research EditHer research interests included history of the English language Old and Middle English literature theories concerning oral tradition especially the techniques of scops or oral poets and textual transmission of early medieval texts feminist approaches to medieval literature and sex and gender in the early Middle Ages Her first monograph was The Textuality of Old English Poetry published by Cambridge University Press in 1995 2 In The Textuality of Old English Poetry Pasternack argued for the techniques of transmission of oral and textual poetry In a primary oral culture to solve effectively the problem of retaining and retrieving carefully articulated thought you have to do your thinking in mnemonic patterns shaped for ready oral recurrence p 62 and Whenever scribes who are part of the oral traditional culture write or copy traditional oral works they do not merely mechanically hand them down they rehear them mouth them reperform them in the act of writing in such a way that the text may change but remain authentic just as a completely oral poet s text changes from performance to performance without losing authenticity p 27 Rosamund S Allen writing in the Modern Language Review in 1997 praised Pasternack for establishing new ways of reading Old English reject ing the New Critical mode of treating Old English poems like modern written texts with definable boundaries and an identifiable author Bridging the divide between oral and written texts that seems to invest much recent discussion Pasternack instead invites readers to consider these both as inscribed texts and recordings of previously performed verse which present aural rather than visual cues 3 Selected publications EditPasternack Carol Braun 1995 The Textuality of Old English Poetry Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 46549 4 OCLC 31044751 4 Stylistic Disjunctions in The Dream of the Rood Anglo Saxon England 1984 volume 13 167 186 Her article Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer s textuality was published in the journal Anglo Saxon England Volume 20 December 1991 99 122 5 Writing in Neophilologus journal Ronald J Ganze identifies Pasternack s major intervention being that she posits a polyphony of voices rather than the traditional one or two speakers for the Old English Wanderer poem 6 Pasternack s chapter PostStructuralist Theories The Subject and the Text features in Reading Old English Texts 1997 edited by Katherine O Brien O Keeffe and published by Cambridge University Press 7 Greg Waite reviewed the book for Parergon journal and noted that Pasternack s article ranges over Derrida Lacan Barthes Kristeva Foucault and others before moving into a brief post structuralist reading of Beowulf 8 Co editor Edit With A N Doane 1991 Vox intexta Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages 9 With Sharon Farmer 2003 Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages 10 With Lisa C M Weston 2004 Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England Essays in Memory of Daniel Gilmore Calder 11 Mary Dockray Miller notes that Pasternack and Weston s edited collection is the only essay collection focused exclusively on issues of sexuality and gender in pre Conquest England an enormously useful and comprehensive overview of the history of sexuality studies in general in medieval scholarship more particularly and in Anglo Saxon studies most specifically 12 Personal life EditPasternack died on September 2 2020 at the age of 70 due to brain cancer 1 She was working on the book Sex Text and Power in Anglo Saxon England 13 References Edit a b c d e Carol Braun Pasternack The Santa Barbara Independent 2020 09 08 Retrieved 2020 09 12 Pasternack Carol Braun 1995 The textuality of old english poetry Cambridge Cambridge Univ Press ISBN 978 0 521 46549 6 OCLC 804844474 Allen Rosamund S 1997 07 01 Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry The Modern Language Review 92 3 682 685 doi 10 2307 3733397 JSTOR 3733397 Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry Allen Rosamund S July 1997 Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry and Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry The Modern Language Review 92 3 682 685 doi 10 2307 3733397 JSTOR 3733397 Hill Joyce 1997 09 22 Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry Medium Aevum 66 2 314 317 Magennis Hugh January 1997 Review of Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry and The Textuality of Old English Poetry English Studies 78 1 78 83 doi 10 1080 00138389708599063 Momma Haruko July 2000 Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry Speculum 75 3 721 723 doi 10 2307 2903431 JSTOR 2903431 Stanley E G 1996 06 01 Review of The Textuality of Old English Poetry Notes and Queries 43 2 196 200 doi 10 1093 nq 43 2 196 Pasternack Carol Braun 1991 Anonymous polyphony and The Wanderer s textuality Anglo Saxon England 20 99 122 doi 10 1017 S0263675100001770 ISSN 1474 0532 S2CID 161579342 Ganze Ronald J 2005 10 01 From AnhagaTo Snottor The Wanderer s Kierkegaardian Epiphany Neophilologus 89 4 629 640 doi 10 1007 s11061 005 0530 z ISSN 1572 8668 S2CID 170701529 Pasternack Carol Braun 1997 Post structuralist theories the subject and the text In O Keeffe Katherine O Brien ed Reading Old English Texts Cambridge Cambridge University Press pp 170 191 ISBN 978 0 521 46970 8 Retrieved 2020 09 12 Waite Greg 1999 Review Reading Old English Texts Parergon 17 1 256 doi 10 1353 pgn 1999 0101 ISSN 1832 8334 S2CID 144773987 Review of Vox intexta Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages Classen Albrecht 1993 Review of Vox intexta Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages Mediaevistik 6 291 293 JSTOR 42584025 Green D H October 1994 Review of Vox intexta Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages The Modern Language Review 89 4 957 958 doi 10 2307 3733904 JSTOR 3733904 Morgan Gerald October 1993 Review of Vox intexta Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 92 4 537 539 JSTOR 27710901 Volk Birke Sabine April 1994 Review of Vox intexta Orality and Textuality in the Middle Ages Speculum 69 2 458 460 doi 10 2307 2865118 JSTOR 2865118 Hansen Elaine Tuttle April 1994 Medieval Literary Studies A View from the Early 1990s Journal of British Studies 33 2 204 210 doi 10 1086 386051 JSTOR 175911 S2CID 227276884 Kelly Kathleen Coyne Winter 2004 Review of Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages Arthuriana 14 4 84 86 doi 10 1353 art 2004 0053 JSTOR 27870662 S2CID 161459507 Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England Chance Jane August 2006 Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England Modern Philology 104 1 111 115 doi 10 1086 510267 JSTOR 10 1086 510267 Mearns Adam April 2007 Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England The Modern Language Review 102 2 476 477 doi 10 2307 20467299 JSTOR 20467299 Traxel Oliver M 2008 Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England Mediaevistik 21 295 298 JSTOR 42586682 Treharne Elaine April 2006 Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England The Review of English Studies New Series 57 229 262 264 doi 10 1093 res hgl027 JSTOR 4095477 Waugh Robin October 2007 Review of Sex and Sexuality in Anglo Saxon England The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 106 4 526 528 doi 10 2307 27712693 JSTOR 27712693 S2CID 254481510 Dockray Miller Mary 2008 Old English Literature and Feminist Theory A State of the Field Literature Compass 5 6 1049 1059 doi 10 1111 j 1741 4113 2008 00581 x Pasternack Carol Braun English Department UCSB www english ucsb edu Retrieved 2020 09 12 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Carol Braun Pasternack amp oldid 1131221065, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
