World medievalism: the Middle Ages in modern textual culture
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford
Date:
2021
Language:
Englisch
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Explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to come to terms with the global present.
Cover -- World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture -- Copyright -- Series Editor's Preface -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Medievalism and the Missing Globe -- The global Middle Ages -- Globalism and medievalism -- Globe and world -- World Medievalism: the arrangementof this book -- 1: Medievalism Disoriented: The French Novel and Neo-reactionary Politics -- Nation and 'globophobia' -- Populism and the loss of 'deep France' -- Jérôme Ferrari's Sermon on the Fall of Rome:colonial trauma -- Michel Houellebecq's Submission: melancholic medievalism -- Mathias Enard's Compass: medievalism and dis-orientalism -- 2: Medievalism Re-oriented: Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet and the 'Arab' Historical Novel -- The Islam Quintet as diasporic fiction -- Predecessors: pan-Arabism and the historical novel -- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree -- The Book of Saladin -- A Sultan in Palermo -- 3: The Name of the Hobbit: Halflings, Hominins, and Deep Time -- The Flores Hobbit and the story of world humanity -- Medievalizing the prehistoric -- Medievalism and containment of the deep global past -- 4: Ten Canoes and 1066: Aboriginal Time and the Limits of Medievalism -- The medieval and the coeval -- World and Country -- Ten Canoes -- Ten Canoes and Arnhem Land's 'medieval' time -- Ten Canoes and Australian colonial medievalism -- Medievalism, temporality, and dreamtime -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Cover -- World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture -- Copyright -- Series Editor's Preface -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Medievalism and the Missing Globe -- The global Middle Ages -- Globalism and medievalism -- Globe and world -- World Medievalism: the arrangementof this book -- 1: Medievalism Disoriented: The French Novel and Neo-reactionary Politics -- Nation and 'globophobia' -- Populism and the loss of 'deep France' -- Jérôme Ferrari's Sermon on the Fall of Rome:colonial trauma -- Michel Houellebecq's Submission: melancholic medievalism -- Mathias Enard's Compass: medievalism and dis-orientalism -- 2: Medievalism Re-oriented: Tariq Ali's Islam Quintet and the 'Arab' Historical Novel -- The Islam Quintet as diasporic fiction -- Predecessors: pan-Arabism and the historical novel -- Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree -- The Book of Saladin -- A Sultan in Palermo -- 3: The Name of the Hobbit: Halflings, Hominins, and Deep Time -- The Flores Hobbit and the story of world humanity -- Medievalizing the prehistoric -- Medievalism and containment of the deep global past -- 4: Ten Canoes and 1066: Aboriginal Time and the Limits of Medievalism -- The medieval and the coeval -- World and Country -- Ten Canoes -- Ten Canoes and Arnhem Land's 'medieval' time -- Ten Canoes and Australian colonial medievalism -- Medievalism, temporality, and dreamtime -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
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Louise D'Arcens
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