Cultural studies of the modern Middle Ages
By: edited by Eileen A. Joy ... [et al.].
Contributors: Joy, Eileen A., 1962-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The new Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781403973078
Subjects: Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Civilization, Medieval.; Medievalism.; Popular culture.; Reality television programs -- History and criticism.; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.; Literature, Modern -- Medieval influences.; War on Terrorism, 2001-; United States -- Civilization -- Medieval influences.; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval presentism before the present / Nancy F. Partner; title: Through a glass, darkly : medieval cultural studies at the end of history / Eileen A. Joy and Myra J. Seaman; title: Models of (im)perfection : parodic refunctioning in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show and Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas" / Kimberly K. Bell; title: "She appears as brightly radiant as she once was foul" : medieval conversion narratives and contemporary makeover shows / Angela Jane Weisl; title: Outwit, outplay, outlast : moral lessons from Handlyng Synne and Survivor / Cynthia A. Ho and James Driggers; title: Back to the future : living the liminal life in the Manor House and the medieval dream / Betsy McCormick; title: Medieval histories and modern realism : yet another origin of the novel / Nancy F. Partner; title: Sacrificing fiction and the quest for the real King Arthur / Myra J. Seaman and John Green; title: The crisis of legitimation in Bush's America and Henry IV's England / Daniel T. Kline; title: Torture, inquisition, medievalism, reality, TV / Steve Guthrie; title: Wolves, outlaws, and enemy combatants / Michael E. Moore; title: Exteriority is not a negation but a marvel : hospitality, terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf / Eileen A. Joy; title: Opening time : psychoanalysis and medieval culture / Michael Uebel; title: Intertemporality / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.