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‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry (2018)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2018). ‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry. In T. Cave, & D. Wilson (Eds.), Reading Beyond the Code: Literature and Relevance Theory (129-148). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794776.003.0008

This chapter offers a way of understanding the effects of poetic images (metaphorical or literal). It employs and extends the notion of ‘emergent properties’, as well as relevance theory’s account of how communicative acts can ‘show’ as much as they... Read More about ‘Look Again’, ‘Listen, Listen’, ‘Keep Looking’: Emergent Properties and Sensorimotor Imagining in Mary Oliver’s Poetry.

Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence. (2018)
Book
Banks, K., & Chesters, T. (Eds.). (2018). Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69200-5

This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including Petrarch, Rabelais, and Sha... Read More about Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence..

Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua (2017)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2018). Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua. In K. Banks, & T. Chesters (Eds.), Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence (81-107). (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69200-5_5

Marshalling history and contemporary science, Banks investigates what happens when writers revive the embodied content of “dead metaphors” or Latin etymons. Analysing Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua and Dolet’s Commentaries on the Latin Language, Ba... Read More about Metaphor, Lexicography, and Rabelais’s Prologue to Gargantua.

Le « Long Poëme » apocalyptique comme « livre scientifique » : discours scientifique dans les poèmes de l’Apocalypse au tournant du XVIe siècle (2017)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2017). Le « Long Poëme » apocalyptique comme « livre scientifique » : discours scientifique dans les poèmes de l’Apocalypse au tournant du XVIe siècle. In J. Ducos (Ed.), Les sciences et le livre : formes des écrits scientifiques des débuts de l'imprimé à l'époque moderne (235-248). Éditions Hermann

‘I speak like John about the Apocalypse’: Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction (2012)
Journal Article
Banks, K. (2012). ‘I speak like John about the Apocalypse’: Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction. Literature and Theology, 26(4), 417-438. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frs050

Can fictions ‘prophesy’? What relationship might they have to apocalypse, in the sense of both the end of the world and also revelation? These questions took on particular weight in the period of the Renaissance and Reformation, since both apocalypti... Read More about ‘I speak like John about the Apocalypse’: Rabelais, Prophecy, and Fiction.

Apocalypse Now and Then (2012)
Book
Banks, K. (2012). Apocalypse Now and Then. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Special issue of journal 'Literature and Theology'

Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period II: Consolidation of God-Given Power (2011)
Book
Banks, K., & Bossier, P. (Eds.). (2011). Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period II: Consolidation of God-Given Power. Peeters Publishers

This is the second of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen, Durham and Groningen and involved scholars from a... Read More about Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period II: Consolidation of God-Given Power.

Royal Authority and Commonplace Similitudes in French Natural-Philosophical Poetry: Duchesne's Grand Miroir du monde and Du Bartas's Sepmaine (2011)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2011). Royal Authority and Commonplace Similitudes in French Natural-Philosophical Poetry: Duchesne's Grand Miroir du monde and Du Bartas's Sepmaine. In M. Bruun, & D. Cowling (Eds.), Commonplace culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period I : Reformation, counter-reformation and revolt (129-149). Peeters Publishers

Difference, Cognition, and Causality: Maurice Scève’s Délie and Charles de Bovelles’s Ars Oppositorum (2010)
Journal Article
Banks, K. (2010). Difference, Cognition, and Causality: Maurice Scève’s Délie and Charles de Bovelles’s Ars Oppositorum. French Studies, 64(2), 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knq008

This article juxtaposes two very different texts, Charles de Bovelles's Ars oppositorum (1511) and Maurice Scève's Délie (1544), examples of Latin prose philosophy and vernacular love lyric respectively. It is not a study of sources: it considers the... Read More about Difference, Cognition, and Causality: Maurice Scève’s Délie and Charles de Bovelles’s Ars Oppositorum.

Les Mondes nouveau-né et vieillissant: La Sepmaine de Du Bartas et la poésie apocalyptique (2009)
Book Chapter
Banks, K. (2009). Les Mondes nouveau-né et vieillissant: La Sepmaine de Du Bartas et la poésie apocalyptique. In C. Winn, & C. Yandell (Eds.), Vieillir à la Renaissance (319-337). Honoré Champion

A la fin du 16ème siècle, époque marquée par les ravages des Guerres de religion, le poème de Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas la Sepmaine, ou la Creation du monde connaît une extrême popularité. Dans ce poème, l’idée angoissante de la mortalité du mon... Read More about Les Mondes nouveau-né et vieillissant: La Sepmaine de Du Bartas et la poésie apocalyptique.

Opposites and Identities: Maurice Scève's Délie and Charles de Bovelles's Ars Oppositorum (2008)
Journal Article
Banks, K. (2008). Opposites and Identities: Maurice Scève's Délie and Charles de Bovelles's Ars Oppositorum. French Studies, 62(4), 389-403. https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knn070

In early sixteenth-century France, uses and conceptions of opposition were varied and shifting. This article analyses some complex and apparently paradoxical notions of opposites and identities found in two very different texts, Charles de Bovelles's... Read More about Opposites and Identities: Maurice Scève's Délie and Charles de Bovelles's Ars Oppositorum.

Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry (2008)
Book
Banks, K. (2008). Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry. Legenda

Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. With Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance, Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic l... Read More about Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and Natural-Philosophical Poetry.