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A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes
and motifs persist today. The proliferation of books and films
about the "undead", those literally returning from the grave, in
modern popular culture has been commented on as a recent
phenomenon, but it is in fact a storytelling tradition going back
more than a millennium. It drew on and was influenced by Christian
eschatology, gathered momentum in medieval ecclesiastical
chronicles, such as those written by Caesarius of Heisterbach, and
then migrated into imaginative literature - famously in John
Lydgate's Dance of Death - and art. But why did revenant stories
and imagery take such a hold in the Middle Ages? And why has that
fascination held on into today's world? This book offers a history
of these revenant narratives, demonstrating how modern horror is
haunted by past literature and exploring the motif of the risen
dead as a focus of cultural anxiety and literary effort. The author
examines the long arc of revenant tales from antiquity and the
Middle Ages through the Reformation and into modernity, tracing
their uncanny similarities and laying bare the rich traditions of
narrative, theme, motif, supernatural belief and eschatological
fears and preoccupations.
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We Are Not Okay (Paperback)
Christian Livermore; Edited by Candice Louisa Daquin; Cover design or artwork by Christine Ray
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