Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages

by Joy, Eileen A.; Seaman, Myra J.; Bell, Kimberly; Ramsey, Mary K.

• ISBN13: 9781403973078
• ISBN10: 1403973075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The essays in this volume bring together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture, in order to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality, and fiction, especially in relation to issues of morality, identity, temporality, social values, power, and justice, both in the past and the present.

Author Biography

Eileen A. Joy is Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. Myra J. Seaman is Associate Professor of English at College of Charleston. Kimberly K. Bell is Assistant Professor of English and Foreign Languages at Sam Houston State University. Mary K. Ramsey is Assistant Professor of English at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Table of Contents

Medieval Presentism Before The Present

Through a Glass, Darkly

Medieval Cultural Studies at the End of History

Models of (Im)Perfection

Parodic Refunctioning in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show and Geoffrey Chaucer's "Tale of Sir Thopas"

"She appears as brightly radiant as she once was foul"

Medieval Conversion Narratives and Contemporary Makeover Shows"

Outwit, Outplay, Outlast

Moral Lessons from Handlyng Synne and Survivor

Back to the Future

Living the Liminal Life in the Manor House and the Medieval Dream Vision

Medieval Histories and Modern Realism

Yet Another Origin of the Novel

Sacrificing Fiction and the Quest for the Real [in] King Arthur

The Crisis of Legitimation in Bush's American and Henry IV's England

Torture, Inquisition, Medievalism, Reality, TV

Wolves, Outlaws, and Enemy Combatants

Exteriority Is Not a Negation But a Marvel

Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf

Opening Time

Psychoanalysis and Medieval Culture

Intertemporality

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