Subject Medieval/modern - Text and Governance in the Middle Ages

Zusatztext "This book revolutionizes contemporary understandings of medieval culture! demonstrates the applicability of medieval texts to modernity! and expands the ways in which literary theory may be applied to texts and contextually criticized." Informationen zum Autor Peter Haidu taught medieval literature and critical theory at Columbia, Yale, Virginia, and Illinois, before retiring from UCLA. He now lives in Paris. He is the author of Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State. Klappentext "Haidu's prose is as elegant as it is electrifying, his interpretations as intricate as they are intriguing, and no resume could hope to do them justice. A must read."--Speculum "This book revolutionizes contemporary understandings of medieval culture, demonstrates the applicability of medieval texts to modernity, and expands the ways in which literary theory may be applied to texts and contextually criticized."--PEER English: The Journal of New Critical Thinking Zusammenfassung This work presents a thorough historicist account of the development of subjectivity in the medieval period, as traced in medieval literature and historical documentation.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Haidu, Haidu Peter
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2003
• EAN: 9780804747448
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4744-8
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture; Figurae: Reading Medieval Cult; Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture; Figurae: Reading Medieval Cult
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies