Studies in Medievalism XIII

Bringing together significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms is a cross-disciplinary and international collection. The volume also effects a critically celebratory appreciation of the intellectual and political possibilities of the many inchoate modes implicit in various acts of "postmodern" scholarship. The essays treat texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, and together they indicate, broadly, what is happening both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. The fourteen essays of the collection are organized into four sections, Music (including Pavel Chinizul, Negru Voda, Arvo Part), Art and Architecture (contemporary architecture, Robert Rauschenberg and more), Cinema (Tolkien, Bresson, Braveheart among the matters discussed), and Literature (including Sir John Mandeville, Marco Polo, Marvel, Naomi Mitchison).

Contributors: FLORIN CURTA, PAUL MURPHY, LEOPOLD BRAUNEISS, JOHN M. GANIM, KARL FUGELSO, VERLYN FLIEGER, WILLIAM D. PADEN, BRIAN LEVY, LESLEY COOTE, A.E. CHRISTA CANITZ, JENNIFER COOLEY, PAUL SMETHURST, ELENA LEVY-NAVAFRO, ANITA OBERMEIER, SYLVIA MITTLER.

Reviews

An especially rich collection of essays. ARTHURIANA

Details

First Published: 10 Nov 2005
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843840121
Pages: 250
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medievalism
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB

Details updated on 22 May 2013

Contents

• 1  Pavel Chinezul, Negru Voda, and `Imagined Communities': Medievalism in Romanian Rock Music
• 2  Disparate Medievalisms in Early Modern Spanish Music Theory
• 3  Arvo Pärt's Tintinnabuli Style: Contemporary Music Towards a New Middle Ages?
• 4  Medievalism, Modernism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Architecture
• 5  Robert Rauschenberg's Inferno Illuminations
• 6  A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-glass
• 7  I Learned It at the Movies: Teaching Medieval Film
• 8  The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Lesley Coote]
• 9  The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Brian Levy]
• 10  `Historians...Will Say I Am a Liar': The Ideology of False Truth Claims in Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Luc Besson's The MessengerMessenger
• 11  Games for the Nation: A Postmodern Reading of Alfonso X's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas
• 12  The Journey from Modern to Postmodern in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo's Divisament dou Monde
• 13  History Straight and Narrow: Marvell, Mary Fairfax, and the Critique of Sexual and Historical Sequence
• 14  Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous
• 15  The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as (Re)appropriation: Carnivalesque Histiographic and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos TsiforosTsiforos