Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England - History, Poetry, and Performance

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Elliott Novacich is an assistant professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where she specializes in medieval literature. Her research interests include poetry, drama, gender studies, and visual culture. Klappentext Sarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature. Zusammenfassung Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden! the loading of Noah's Ark! and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows how medieval writers and artists pondered ways of preserving and transmitting the past! and considered the pleasures and risks of creating an archive. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Model worlds; 2. Ark and archive; 3. Uxor Noe and the drowned; 4. Infernal archive; 5. The Harrowing of Hell: closure and rehearsal.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Novacich, Sarah Elliott Novacich, Sarah Elliott (Rutgers University Novacich
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107177055
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17705-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Oral History, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography, Literary studies: general