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Book SynopsisStudies of texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, together they indicate, broadly, directions both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. Bringing together significant statements on postmodern qualities of the invocation of the medieval, Postmodern Medievalisms is a cross-disciplinary and international collection. The volume also effects a critically celebratory appreciation of the intellectual and political possibilities of the many inchoate modes implicit in various acts of "postmodern" scholarship. The essays treat texts from the late middle ages to the contemporary moment, and together they indicate, broadly, what is happening both in postmodern studies and studies in medievalism. The fourteen essays of the collection are organized into four sections, Music (including Pavel Chinizul, Negru Voda, Arvo Part), Art and Architecture (contemporary architecture, Robert Rauschenberg and more), Cinema (Tolkien, Bresson, Braveheart among the matters discussed), and Literature (including Sir John Mandeville, Marco Polo, Marvel, Naomi Mitchison). Contributors: FLORIN CURTA, PAUL MURPHY, LEOPOLD BRAUNEISS, JOHN M. GANIM, KARL FUGELSO, VERLYN FLIEGER, WILLIAM D. PADEN, BRIAN LEVY, LESLEY COOTE, A.E. CHRISTA CANITZ, JENNIFER COOLEY, PAUL SMETHURST, ELENALEVY-NAVAFRO, ANITA OBERMEIER, SYLVIA MITTLER.
Trade ReviewAn especially rich collection of essays. * ARTHURIANA *
Table of ContentsPavel Chinezul, Negru Voda, and `Imagined Communities': Medievalism in Romanian Rock Music - Florin Curta Disparate Medievalisms in Early Modern Spanish Music Theory - Paul Murphy Arvo Pärt's Tintinnabuli Style: Contemporary Music Towards a New Middle Ages? - Leopold Brauneiss Medievalism, Modernism and Postmodernism in Contemporary Architecture - John M Ganim Robert Rauschenberg's Inferno Illuminations - A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-glass - Verlyn Flieger I Learned It at the Movies: Teaching Medieval Film - William Paden Jr The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Lesley Coote] - Brian Levy The Subversion of Medievalism in Lancelot du lac and Monty Python and the Holy Grail [with Brian Levy] - Lesley A Coote `Historians...Will Say I Am a Liar': The Ideology of False Truth Claims in Mel Gibson's Braveheart and Luc Besson's The MessengerMessenger - Christa A. E. Canitz Games for the Nation: A Postmodern Reading of Alfonso X's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas - Jenneifer Cooley The Journey from Modern to Postmodern in the Travels of Sir John Mandeville and Marco Polo's Divisament dou Monde - Paul Smethurst History Straight and Narrow: Marvell, Mary Fairfax, and the Critique of Sexual and Historical Sequence - Elena Levy-Navarro Postmodernism and the Press in Naomi Mitchison's To the Chapel Perilous - Anita Obermeier The Crusades and Frankish Medieval Greece as (Re)appropriation: Carnivalesque Histiographic and Modern Greek Humorist Nikos TsiforosTsiforos - Sylvia Mittler
