Medievalisms
Subtitle: the poetics of literary re-reading
By: Liliana Sikorska (ed.) ; with the assistance of Joanna Maciulewicz.
Contributors: Sikorska, Liliana.; Maciulewicz, Joanna.
Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature -- v. 21
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9783631572177
Subjects: Medievalism.; Medievalism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Layers of fictionality. Reading Victorian medievalism in A.S. Byatt's Possession / Marcin Cieniuch; title: The alchemy of imagination / Lindsay Clarke; title: Artificial discourse of national belonging: the case of Anglo-Saxonism / Anna Czarnowus; title: The gender of the vice: from the Medieval she-vice to the Renaissance she-villain in Shakespeare's Macbeth; title: Rewriting Arthurian legends in Soseki: "Kairoko" and Malory / Keiko Hamaguchi; title: The portrayal of (d)evil in Iris Murdoch's The flight from the enchanter, a fairly honourable defeat and The time of the angels / Łukasz Hudomięt; title: Medieval dramatic tradition revisited in Peter Barnes' Red noses / Dagmara Krzyżaniak; title: Translations and imitations of medieval texts in Neoclassicism: Chaucer as a "rough diamond" that "must first be polished ere he sines" / Joanna Maciulewicz; title: The witch in English literature: negotiation of power and gender politics / Malgorzata Milczarek; title: Teaching the English Middle Ages on film; title: possibilities, problems, perspectives / Hans Sauer; title: Alfred Tennyson's "Vivien" and "Guinevere": sensation stories in medieval setting / Agnieszka Setecka; title: The alchemy of love: representing desire in a medievalist (con)text. Lindsay Clarke's The chymical wedding / Liliana Sikorska; title: Medieval bestiaries and modern beasts; title: the making of beast fables in contemporary literature / Anna Warmuz; title: Some Boethian and ecclesiological themes in C.S. Lewis's Screwtape letters / Andrej Wicher; title: Blind Hary's The wallace and Mel Gibson's Braveheart: what do medieval romance and Hollywood film have in common? / Wladyslaw Witalisz.