New Zealand Medievalism (eBook, ePUB)

Reframing the Medieval
Redaktion: Czarnowus, Anna; Wilson, Janet M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume maps the phenomenon of medievalism in Aotearoa, initially as an import by the early white settler society, and as a form of nation building that would reinforce Britishness and ancestral belonging.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040023402
• Artikelnr.: 70129182

Autorenporträt

Anna Czarnowus is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Silesia, Katowice (Poland). She has published on Middle English literature and medievalisms, co-editing (with M.J.Toswell) Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood (2020), and (with Carolyne Larrington) Memory and Medievalism in George R.R. Martin and Game of Thrones: The Keeper of All Our Memories (2022). She is also the co-editor (with Laurel Ryan) of Medievalism and Slavic Popular Culture (forthcoming). Janet M. Wilson is Professor Emerita in English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton, UK. She formerly taught medieval studies at universities in New Zealand and the UK. Her research now focuses on the postcolonial and diaspora writing of the white settler societies of Australia and New Zealand, as well as refugee writing, the global novel, transnationalism, and transculturalism. Katherine Mansfield is a special subject of interest. She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the series Studies in World Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: New Zealand medievalism: reframing the medieval 1. New
Zealand medieval studies: an academy across the globe 2. Trans-Tasman
medievalism: George Russell, Grahame Johnston, and Bernard Martin 3. There
and back again: P.S. Ardern and J.A.W. Bennett as New Zealand medieval
scholars 4. Place and space in te ao M¿ori and the medieval world 5.
Between worlds: the afterlife of medieval manuscripts in the Alfred and
Isabel Reed collection 6. Integrating experiential learning to reinvigorate
medieval studies in New Zealand 7. Music, medievalism, and the New Zealand
early music revival 8. Tolkien's primitivism and the myth of a pastoral
paradise in Peter Jackson's Tolkien adaptations 9. Set in concrete: the
stained glass of St Peter's Cathedral, Hamilton, and the Anglo-Catholic
menace 10. Havelock North: embodied medievalism in an Aotearoa New Zealand
Village 11. Aotearoa New Zealand and global right-wing medievalism