Overing / Wiethaus American/Medieval

Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0625-1
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 237 Seiten

This volume offers a dialogue with and through the medieval informed by cultural categories of performativity and simultaneity in on-line media, architecture, film, poetry, and social formations. The articles depart from Medievalism Studies and attempt to answer questions such as: How do medievalists, artists, writers, and entertainment industries communicate, replicate, and evoke medieval formations? How do national and transnational discursive fields relate to understandings of the medieval in its many unstable states? Where are the communal memory sites and what functions do they serve for those who are associated with them? Where are the medieval disjunctions and conjunctions of race, ethnicity and time in a settler society? And what do place, nature, and landscape have to do with it?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Overing, Gillian R.

Wiethaus, Ulrike

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boyer, Tina

Zulick, Margaret

Davies, Joshua

Hurley, Mary Kate

Lees, Clare

Miguel-Prendes, Sol

Sigal, Gale

Overing, Gillian R.

Wiethaus, Ulrike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;8
5;Acknowledgments;8
6;Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: The Making of American/Medieval;10
6.1;Medievalism and the American/Medieval;10
6.2;American/Medieval: The Challenge of Definition;12
6.3;A/M: Old Trauma, New Archives, and Creatures on the Move;14
6.4;New Archives;16
6.5;Creatures on the Move;19
6.6;Conclusion;22
6.7;Select Bibliography;23
7;Part One: Old Trauma;26
8;Tina Marie Boyer: Medieval Imaginations and Internet Role-Playing Games;28
8.1;Introduction;28
8.2;Slender Man;30
8.3;American Imaginations of the Medieval and Slender Man;43
8.4;Bibliography;46
9;Sol Miguel-Prendes: Medieval Iberian Studies: Borders, Bridges, Fences;48
9.1;Boundaries;52
9.2;Bridges;60
9.3;Fences;67
9.4;Bibliography;71
10;Ulrike Wiethaus: “Yet another group of cowboys riding around the same old rock”: Religion and the German-American Genesis of a Capitalist Stereotype;76
10.1;Introduction;76
10.2;From Mammon to Letzter Mensch;80
10.3;Indigeneity and Doomed Pre-capitalist Wholeness;84
10.4;The Natural Habitat, Race, and Sexual Threat of Homo capitalisticus;87
10.5;The Puritan Spirit and the Desires of the Id;94
10.6;Contemporary American Mutations of Medieval DNA;96
10.7;Bibliography;99
11;Part Two: New Archives;104
12;Joshua Davies: “Beyond the Profane”: Machine Gothic and the Cultural Memory of the Future;106
12.1;Gothic Origins;115
12.2;American Gothic;118
12.3;Railroad Gothic;120
12.4;Colonial Gothic;123
12.5;Bibliography;128
13;Mary Kate Hurley: “Scars of History”: Game of Thrones and American Origin Stories;132
13.1;Scars of History: Time, Nostalgia, and the Wounds of the Past;134
13.2;Scars of Fantasy: Westerosi History and Time's Wounds;137
13.3;Scars of Time: Martin's “Medieval” World;141
13.4;Scars of History: Toward the American/Medieval;148
13.5;Bibliography;150
14;Gale Sigal: At What Price Arthur? Academic Autobiography, Medieval Studies, and the American Medieval;152
14.1;Introduction;152
14.2;In the Middle or On the Margins?;154
14.3;The Rise of Medievalism: England as a European Prototype;157
14.4;Medieval Studies and Medievalism in the United States: A Transatlantic Conversation;159
14.5;American “Medieval Times”: Commerce, Contemplation, and Entertainment;161
14.6;Contemplative American Medieval Places: Quietly Hosting the Authentic;167
14.7;Going to the American South: At What Price Arthur?;168
14.8;Bibliography;173
15;Part Three: Creatures on the Move;176
16;Clare A. Lees: In Three Poems: Medieval and Modern in Seamus Heaney, Maureen Duffy and Colette Bryce;178
16.1;The Poet and the Critic: Seamus Heaney and Helen Vendler;181
16.2;First Poem: “Hermit Songs,” Scribes and Scholars;184
16.3;Second Poem: “Lex Innocentis 697,” Maureen Duffy and the Law of the Innocents;187
16.4;Third Poem: Colette Bryce's “Asylum,” Iona, Ireland and Exile;192
16.5;In Three Poems;198
16.6;Bibliography;199
17;Margaret D. Zulick: The Fox and the Furry: The Animal Tale and Virtual Narrative in Rhetorical Narrative Analysis;204
17.1;Introduction;204
17.2;Animal Tales and Narrative Theory in Western Civic Tradition;205
17.3;American/Medieval: Stories of Reynard the Fox and Brer Rabbit;211
17.4;Animal Tales in Virtual Worlds;212
17.5;Conclusions;216
17.6;Bibliography;217
18;Ulrike Wiethaus: The Black Swan and Pope Joan: Double Lives and the American/Medieval;220
18.1;Introduction;220
18.2;The Doppelgänger in Religion and Secular Culture;222
18.3;Contemporary Film: Transatlantic Crossings;227
18.4;Conclusion;229
18.5;Bibliography;230
19;Author Biographies;232
20;Index;236

Über Autor(innen)

Wiethaus, Ulrike
Ulrike Wiethaus (PhD) holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions and the American Ethnic Studies Program at Wake Forest University.

Overing, Gillian R.
Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University.

Wiethaus, Ulrike
Ulrike Wiethaus (PhD) holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department for the Study of Religions and the American Ethnic Studies Program at Wake Forest University.

Overing, Gillian R.
Gillian R. Overing (PhD) is Professor of English and previously co-directed Medieval Studies at Wake Forest University.