Tison Pugh, Angela Weisl

Medievalisms (eBook, PDF)

Making the Past in the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Medievalisms surveys the critical field and sets the boundaries for future study, providing an essential background for literary study from the Medieval period through to the twenty-first century, exploring:

• The influence of medieval cultural concepts on key authors such as Shakespeare, Dante, Chaucer, George Eliot and Mark Twain
• The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as King Arthur and Robin Hood
• The influence of the medieval on disciplines such as politics, music, film, and art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136265419
• Artikelnr.: 38248781

Autorenporträt

Tison Pugh is Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, USA.

Angela Jane Weisl is Professor of English at Seton Hall University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Medievalisms: The Magic of the Middle Ages 2. A Case Study of Dante:
Naked Icons of Medievalism 3. Literary Medievalisms: Inventing Inspirations
4. "Medieval" Literature for Children and Young Adults: Fantasies of
Innocence 5. King Arthur's and Robin Hood's Adventures in Medievalism:
Mythic Masculinities (and Magical Femininities) 6. Movie Medievalisms: Five
(or Six) Ways of Looking at an Anachronism 7. Medievalisms in Music and the
Arts: Longing for Transcendence 8. Experiential Medievalisms: Reliving the
Always Modern Middle Ages 9. Political Medievalisms: The Darkness of the
Dark Ages