James Nohrnberg

(1975)
Professor
Renaissance Literature, The Bible

Degrees

Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1970
B.A. Harvard, 1962

Books

  • Like unto Moses: The Constituting of an Interruption. Indiana University Press, 1995.
  • The Analogy of 'The Faerie Queene'. Princeton University Press, 1976: Limited Paperback Edition, 1980.

Articles

  • "Alençon’s Dream / Dido’s Tomb: Some Shakespearean Music and a Spenserian Muse": Spenser Studies, Vol. XXII (2007), guest ed. David Galbraith and Theresa M. Krier (New York: AMS Press, 2007), 73-102
  • "Foreword": to John Curran, ‘Hamlet,’ Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency (Ashgate Press, 2006), vii-xxv
  • "Britomart’s Gone Abroad to Brute-land, Colin Clout’s Come Courting from the Salvage Ire-land: Exile and the Kingdom in Some of Spenser’s Fictions for ‘Crossing Over,’" Edmund Spenser: New and Renewed Directions, ed. J.B. Lethbridge (Teaneck / Maidson, NJ: Fairleigh-Dickinson Univ. Press: 2006), 214-91
  • “The Autobiographical Imperative and the Necessity of ‘Dante’ in Purgatorio 30.55,” Modern Philology, Vol. 111, No. 1 (Autumn, 2003), 1-47
  • "The First-Fruits of the Last Judgment: The Commedia as a Thirteenth Century Apocalypse," in Last Things: Apocalypse, Judgment, and Millennium in the Middle Ages, ed. Susan J. Ridyard, Sewanee Medieval Studies, Vol. 12 (2002).
  • "Paradigm Reclaimed: The Scriptural, Literary, Archaeological, and Theological Context for the Veneration of the Divine Image in Paradise Lost, or Gloroius Crown: A Brief Adamology for Milton's Diffuse Epic," Texts and Contexts, ed. James Unsworth (internet publication, 2001).
  • "The Master of the Myth of Literature: An Interpenetrative Ogdoad for Northrop Frye:: review essay of Rereading Frye: The Published and Unpublished Works, ed. David Boyd and Imre Salusinszky, Comparative Literature, 53:1 (2001).
  • "Dante's Adam's Dropsy: A Case Study in the Literary Etiology of the Sickness of Sin," in Death, Sickness, and Health in Medieval Society and Culture, ed. Susan J. Ridyard, Sewanee Medieval Studies, Vol. 10 (2000).
  • "The Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars in Dante's Hell," in Sparks and Seeds: Midieval Literature and its Afterlife. Essays in Honor of John Freccero, edited by Dana Stewart and Alison Cornish, (2000).
  • "The Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars in Inferno XVIII," in Earthly Love, Spiritual Love, Love of the Saints, ed. Susan J. Ridyard, Sewanee Mediaeval Studies, No. 8 (1999).
  • Review of Charles Ross, The Custom of the Castle: From Mallory to Macbeth, in Spenser Newsletter, 30:3 (1999).
  • "Inferno XVIII: Introduction to Malebolge," In Lectura Dantis: "Inferno", ed. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross (1998).
  • "Allegory De-veiled: A New Theory for Construing Allegory's Two Bodies": review essay on Gordon Teskey's Allegory and Violence, Modern Philology, 96.2 (1998); reprinted in Twentiet Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 98, ed. Jennifer Baise (Topics Volume; sub "Literature and Violence") (2001).
  • "Orlando's Opportunity: Chance, Luck, Fortune, Occasion, Boats, and Blows in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato," in Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America, ed. Jo Ann Cavallo and Charles Ross (1998).
  • "The Descent of Geryon: The Moral System of Inferno XVI-XXXI," Dante Studies CXIV, (1996; publ. 1998).
  • "Allegories of Scripture," in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 11:2; Special Issue, Literary Approaches to the Bible, ed. Stanley Goldman (1993).
  • "Princely Characters," in 'Not in Heaven': Coherence and Complexity in Biblical Narrative, ed. Joseph Sitterson and Jason Rosenblatt (1991).
  • "Justifying Narrative: Commentary in Biblical Storytelling," in Annotation and Its Texts, ed. Stephen A. Barney (1991).
  • "The Tale Told By Twice-Told Tales": review-essay on Meir Sternberg's The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Yearbook of Comparataive and General Literature (1990).
  • "The Keeping of Nahor: The Etiology of Biblical Election in Genesis," in The Book and the Text: The Bible and Literary Theory, ed. Regina Schwarz (1990).
  • "Acidale," "The Faerie Queene, Book IV," in The Spenser Encyclopedia, gen. ed. A. C. Hamilton (1990 pb 1997).
  • "Paradise Regained by One Greater Man: Milton's Wisdom Epic as a 'Fable of Identity,'" in Centre and Labryinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye, ed. Eleanor Cook, et al. (1983, pb 1985).

Honors

  • Institute for Advanced Study, Indiana University, 1991
  • Gauss Seminar lectures, Princeton University, 1987
  • Guggenheim Fellowship, 1981-1982
  • Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, 1975-1978
  • Morse Fellowship, Yale University, 1974-1975
  • Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1965-1968
  • Queen Elizabeth II Ontario Scholarship, 1964-1965
  • Woodrow Wilson Fellow, University of Toronto, 1962-1963
  • American Academy of Poets Poetry Award, Harvard College, 1962
  • Robert Frost Poetry Prize, Kenyon College, 1960