Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
How have the middle ages been constructed in modern European culture? How have these constructions both reflected and refashioned national and political ideology? What has characterised the interplay between literary and artistic medievalism and the rise of formal medieval studies in the academy? This international collection addresses medievalism in Germany, France, Scandinavia, and postcolonial South America.
Synopsis
The second study of medievalism in Europe shows how the influence of the middle ages has been manifested itself in various forms, throughout the modern age, in Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden - and Brazil.
Table of Contents
Inventing German(ic) Chaucer : ideology and philology in German Anglistics before 1945 / Richard J. Utz -- Hermann Hesse's approaches to medieval literature / Albrecht Classen -- Jeschute, or, How to arrange the taming of a hero : the myth of Parzival from Chrâetien to Adolf Muschg / Otfrid Ehrismann -- King and marshal : ballad and liturgy in a Danish music drama / Nils Holger Petersen -- Medievalism in the service of the Swedish proletariat : Jan Fridegêard's trilogy / Robert E. Bjork -- The cradle and the crucible : envisioning the Middle Ages in French Romanticism / Michael Glencross -- Medievalism in the Midi : inventing the Medieval house in nineteenth century France/ Martha L. MacFarlane -- Saint Louis in French political culture / Adam Knobler -- Saint Louis in French epic and drama / William Chester Jordan -- Asceticism, masochism, and female autonomy : Catherine of Siena and The story of O / Suzy Beemer -- Closing the circle : medievalism in today's Occitan (Provenðcal) literature / William Calin -- From The song of Roland to the songs of Arnaut Daniel : chapbooks and transcreations in modern Brazilian poetry / Roy Rosenstein.