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From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages. This fascinating and illuminating guide is written by two of the leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature, and explores: The influence of medieval cultural concepts on literature and film, including key authors such as Shakespeare, Tennyson, and Mark Twain The continued appeal of medieval cultural figures such as Dante, King Arthur, and Robin Hood The influence of the medieval on such varied disciplines such as politics, music, childrenâs literature, and art. Contemporary efforts to relive the Middle Ages. Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present 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.
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9780415617260 | Routledge, September 28, 2012, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval culture continues to surround us and has retained a strong influence on literature and culture throughout the ages.
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9780415617277 | Routledge, September 28, 2012, cover price $37.95
Product Description: This fascinating study explores the intersection of postcolonial theory and medievalism. While the latter has traditionally been defined primarily in terms of European nationalism, the essays in this volume discuss medievalism in regions as wide-ranging as the United States, India, Latin America, and Africa...read more
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9780801893209 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 3, 2009, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: This fascinating study explores the intersection of postcolonial theory and medievalism.
Hardcover:
9780873529969 | Modern Language Assn of Amer, January 31, 2007, cover price $37.50
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9780873529976 | Modern Language Assn of Amer, December 1, 2006, cover price $19.75
Product Description: This book seeks to examine the ways medieval genre shapes contemporary public culture. Through an exploration of several contemporary cultural phenomena, this book reveals the narrative underpinnings of public discourse. The ways these particular forms of storytelling shape our assumptions are examined by Angela Jane Weisl through a series of examples that demonstrate the intrinsic ways medievalism persists in the modern world, thus perpetuating archaic ideas of gender, ideology, and doctrine...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780312239688 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 24, 2003, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book seeks to examine the ways medieval genre shapes contemporary public culture.
Product Description: The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of Chaucer's most important works, Dr Weisl examines Chaucer's use of gender issues to explore and challenge this genre...read more
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9780859914604 | Ds Brewer, July 1, 1995, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions.
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