American/Medieval

Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer

Gillian R. Overing, Ulrike Wiethaus, Gillian R. Overing, Ulrike Wiethaus

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9783847106258
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847006251
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History Reference
• Index: History

This volume offers a dialogue with and through the medieval informed by cultural categories of performativity and simultaneity in on-line media, architecture, film, poetry, and social formations. The articles depart from Medievalism Studies and attempt to answer questions such as: How do medievalists, artists, writers, and entertainment industries communicate, replicate, and evoke medieval formations? How do national and transnational discursive fields relate to understandings of the medieval in its many unstable states? Where are the communal memory sites and what functions do they serve for those who are associated with them? Where are the medieval disjunctions and conjunctions of race, ethnicity and time in a settler society? And what do place, nature, and landscape have to do with it?

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Acknowledgments
• Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: The Making of American/Medieval
• Part One: Old Trauma
• Tina Marie Boyer: Medieval Imaginations and Internet Role-Playing Games
• Sol Miguel-Prendes: Medieval Iberian Studies: Borders, Bridges, Fences
• Ulrike Wiethaus: “Yet another group of cowboys riding around the same old rock”: Religion and the German-American Genesis of a Capitalist Stereotype
• Part Two: New Archives
• Joshua Davies: “Beyond the Profane”: Machine Gothic and the Cultural Memory of the Future
• Mary Kate Hurley: “Scars of History”: Game of Thrones and American Origin Stories
• Gale Sigal: At What Price Arthur? Academic Autobiography, Medieval Studies, and the American Medieval
• Part Three: Creatures on the Move
• Clare A. Lees: In Three Poems: Medieval and Modern in Seamus Heaney, Maureen Duffy and Colette Bryce
• Margaret D. Zulick: The Fox and the Furry: The Animal Tale and Virtual Narrative in Rhetorical Narrative Analysis
• Ulrike Wiethaus: The Black Swan and Pope Joan: Double Lives and the American/Medieval
• Author Biographies
• Index