Memory and medievalism
By: edited by Karl Fugelso.
Contributors: Fugelso, Karl.
Series: Studies in medievalism -- 15
Publisher: D.S. Brewer; D.S.Brewer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; Rochester, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781843841159
Subjects: Medievalism.; Memory.
Description: The theme of this volume is the role of memory in post-medieval interpretations of the middle ages. In addressing subjects that range from Victorian portraits of Anglo-Saxons to cabaret performances of chansons and from linguistic nationalism in Ivanhoe to masturbatory allegory in A Confederacy of Dunces, the contributors discuss some of the many ways in which the medieval period has been remembered, revived, recycled, revered, and, at times, reviled. They thus open new windows onto the manner in which our culture defines, and continues to be defined by, one of the most complex and protean parts of its past. --Provided by Plublisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Editorial note / Karl Fugelso; title: From cabaret to lecture hall : medieval song as cultural memory in the performance of Yvette Guilbert / Elezbeth Emery; title: "Hic iacet Arthurus"? Situating the medieval king in English renaissance memory / Richard Utz; title: Remembering our Saxon forefathers : linguistic nationalism in "Ivanhoe" / Mary Catherine Davidson; title: Civilizing the savage ancestor : representations of the Anglo-Saxons in the art of nineteenth-century Britain / Chris Bishop; title: "It's prolly fulla dirty stories" : Masturbatory allegory and queer medievalism in John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" / Tison Pugh; title: Heaney's "Sweeny Astrays" : Acts of omission, translation, and a new medievalism / Lahney Preston-Matto; title: Dante and Wendell Berry's modern book of memory / Dominic Manganiello; title: Creating Scottish nationalism : English translations of the fourteenth-century "Declaration of Arbroath" / Mark P. Bruce; title: Juggling in the Middle Ages ; the reception of "Our Lady's Tumbler" and "Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame" / Jan M. Ziolkowski.