Medieval Twitter

Modern Media, Literary Criticism, and Medievalism

Alicia Spencer-Hall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2024 | New edition
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-942401-95-7 (ISBN)

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This pioneering monograph provocatively explodes current research paradigms for the modern and the medieval by showing that Twitter shares key similarities with medieval literary forms, texts, and narrative techniques. Analyzing tweets with medieval texts, and vice versa, Spencer-Hall initiates readers into an innovative methodology of interdisciplinary literary criticism, posing vital questions about the politics of medievalism today. Chapters include brand-new readings of The Owl and the Nightingale, the Chastelaine de Vergi, and Marie de France’s Laüstic, and arresting insights into troubadour style, Margery Kempe, and #MedievalTwitter. The book culminates in a medieval(ist) reading of Twitter’s premature demise, and Elon Musk’s medievalism. Throughout, points of contact and divergence are dissected, re-contextualizing the socio-cultural meaning of communication and texts across the temporal divide.

Alicia Spencer-Hall is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University College London. Their research interests include medieval hagiography, gender, film, and digital culture. Her first book, Medieval Saints and Modern Screens, was published in 2018.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction. Context Collapse

Chapter 1. A Social Manuscript

Chapter 2. #Medieval Twitter

Chapter 3. Will the Real Margery Kempe Please Stand Up?

Chapter 4. Dear Nobody: Private Publics and Public Privates

Conclusion. Larry’s Dead

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Arc Impact
Zusatzinfo	90 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Graphs; 6 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-942401-95-7 / 1942401957
ISBN-13	978-1-942401-95-7 / 9781942401957
Zustand	Neuware