American/Medieval (eBook)

Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer

Gillian R. Overing, Ulrike Wiethaus (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
237 Seiten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (Verlag)
978-3-8470-0625-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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?

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

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.10.2016
• Co-Autor: Tina Boyer, Margaret Zulick, Joshua Davies, Mary Kate Hurley, Clare A. Lees, Sol Miguel-Prendes, Gale Sigal, Gillian R. Overing, Ulrike Wiethaus
• Zusatzinfo: mit 8 Abbildungen
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Alltagskultur • Architektur • Film • Lyrik • Mittelalter • Nordamerika • Online-Medien • USA
• ISBN-10: 3-8470-0625-8 / 3847006258
• ISBN-13: 978-3-8470-0625-1 / 9783847006251