Medieval Afterlives In Contemporary Culture

Author : Gail Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144116068X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture written by Gail Ashton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more. Also included is a companion website aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives, complete with: - Further reading/weblinks - 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations - Images and interviews - Guide to library archives and manuscript collections - Guide to heritage collection See also our website at https://medievalafterlives.wordpress.com/.

Author : G. Ashton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137105178
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture written by G. Ashton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.

Author : Gail Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441102825
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture written by Gail Ashton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture. Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comics book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more. Also included is a companion website aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives, complete with: - Further reading/weblinks - 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations - Images and interviews - Guide to library archives and manuscript collections - Guide to heritage collection See also our website at https://medievalafterlives.wordpress.com/.

Author : G. Ashton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137105178
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture written by G. Ashton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.

Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429880367
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film written by Kathleen Forni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf's presence on the popular cultural radar has increased in the past two decades, coincident with cultural crisis and change. Why? By way of a fusion of cultural studies, adaptation theory, and monster theory, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife examines a wide range of Anglo-American retellings and appropriations found in literary texts, comic books, and film. The most remarkable feature of popular adaptations of the poem is that its monsters, frequently victims of organized militarism, male aggression, or social injustice, are provided with strong motives for their retaliatory brutality. Popular adaptations invert the heroic ideology of the poem, and monsters are not only created by powerful men but are projections of their own pathological behavior. At the same time there is no question that the monsters created by human malfeasance must be eradicated.

Author : Daniel T. Kline
Publisher : Cultural Histories
ISBN 13 : 1350032999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Youth in the Middle Ages written by Daniel T. Kline and published by Cultural Histories. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Angela Jane Weisl
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535852070
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for: Modern Medievalisms: The Fantasy Hero and Heroine on Screen and in Young Adult Fiction written by Angela Jane Weisl and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: Modern Medievalisms: The Fantasy Hero and Heroine on Screen and in Young Adult Fiction is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Marina Gerzic
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429683006
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Medievalism to Early-Modernism written by Marina Gerzic and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture—such as the allusions to John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and the impact of intertextual references and internet fandom on the BBC’s The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses—the contributors illustrate how cinematic, televisual, artistic, and literary depictions of the historical and cultural past not only re-purpose the past in varying ways, but also build on a history of adaptations that audiences have come to know and expect. From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past analyses the way that the medieval and early modern periods are used in modern adaptations, and how these adaptations both reflect contemporary concerns, and engage with a history of intertextuality and intervisuality.

Author : Kathleen Forni
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786473444
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Afterlife written by Kathleen Forni and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling involves a variety of functions but Chaucer's primary association is with the idea of pilgrimage and the prevailing tenor is populist satire. The target is not only cultural elitism but also the dominant discourse of professional Chaucerians. Academics in turn may have doubts about the value of popular Chaucer; popular culture theory, however, would maintain that such skepticism has less to do with critical discrimination than the assertion of social distinction. Nonetheless, the fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality.

Author : Meriem Pagès
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786479418
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Ages on Television written by Meriem Pagès and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st century has seen a resurgence of popular interest in the Middle Ages. Television in particular has presented a wide and diverse array of "medieval" offerings. Yet there exists little scholarship on television medievalism. This collection fills the gap with 10 new essays focusing on the depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture and questioning the role of television in shaping our ideas about past and present. The contributors emphasize the need for scholars of medievalism to pay attention to its manifestations on the small screen. The essays cover quite a range of topics, including genre, gender and sexuality. The series covered are Game of Thrones, Merlin, Full Metal Jousting, Joan of Arcadia, Tudors, Camelot and Mists of Avalon. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.