The Persistence of Medievalism - Narrative Adventures in Public Discourse

The Persistence of Medievalism seeks to examine the ways medieval genre shapes contemporary public culture. Through an exploration of several contemporary cultural phenomena, this book reveals the narrative underpinnings of public discourse. The ways these particular forms of storytelling shape our assumptions are examined by Weisl through a series of examples that demonstrate the intrinsic ways medievalism persists in the modern world, thus perpetuating archaic ideas of gender, ideology, and doctrine.

List of contents

Introduction: The Persistence of Medievalism The Confessions of Wade Boggs, the Confessions of St. Augustine: Baseball, Sex Scandals, and Medieval Narrative Saints, Relics, and the Pilgrimage to Cooperstown Where Many Have Gone Before: The Romance of Star Trek Rexque Quondam Futurus: Star Wars and the Rebirth of Arthurian Romance Everything that's Old is New Again: Medieval Romance and the Modern Movies I Loved You from Before We Met: Desire, Teen Idols, and the Cult of Celebrity New Method, Old Madness: The Woman's Dangerous Body and the Internet Icons and Iconography: The Return of a Symbolic Visual Culture

About the author

ANGELA JANE WEISL is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Seton Hall University.

Summary

The Persistence of Medievalism seeks to examine the ways medieval genre shapes contemporary public culture.

Product details

• Authors: A Weisl, A. Weisl, Angela Jane Weisl
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780312239688
• ISBN: 978-0-312-23968-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 223 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 484 g
• Illustrations: IX, 278 p.
• Series: The New Middle Ages; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Cultural History, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, European History, Social & cultural history, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Regional Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, Europe—History, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages