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World Medievalism - The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture (Paperback)
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World Medievalism - The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Textual Perspectives
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World Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern Textual Culture
explores the ways in which a range of modern textual cultures have
continued to engage creatively with the medieval past in order to
come to terms with the global present. Building its argument
through four case studies-from the Middle East, France, Southeast
Asia, and Indigenous Australia-it shows that to understand
medievalism as a cultural idiom with global reach, we need to
develop a more nuanced grasp of the different ways 'the Middle
Ages' have come to signify beyond Europe as well as within a Europe
that has been transformed by multiculturalism and the global
economy. The book's case studies are explored within a conceptual
framework in which medievalism itself is formulated as
'world-disclosing' a transhistorical encounter that enables the
modern subject to apprehend the past 'world' opened up in medieval
and medievalist texts and objects. The book analyses the cultural
and material conditions under which its texts are produced,
disseminated, and received, and examines literature alongside
films, television programs, newspapers and journals, political
tracts, as well as such material and artefactual texts as
photographs, paintings, statues, buildings, rock art, and fossils.
While the case studies feature distinctive localised forms of
medievalism, taken together they reveal how imperial and global
legacies have ensured that the medieval period continues to be
perceived as a commonly held past that can be retrieved, reclaimed,
or revived in response to the accelerated changes and uncertainties
of global modernity.
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