Medievalisms : the poetics of literary re-reading / Liliana Sikorska (ed.) ; with the assistance of Joanna Maciulewicz.

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English
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Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2008.
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229 p. ; 21 cm.

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    Contents
    • Layers of fictionality. Reading Victorian medievalism in A.S. Byatt's Possession / Marcin Cieniuch
    • The alchemy of imagination / Lindsay Clarke
    • Artificial discourse of national belonging: the case of Anglo-Saxonism / Anna Czarnowus
    • The gender of the vice: from the Medieval she-vice to the Renaissance she-villain in Shakespeare's Macbeth
    • Rewriting Arthurian legends in Soseki: "Kairoko" and Malory / Keiko Hamaguchi
    • The portrayal of (d)evil in Iris Murdoch's The flight from the enchanter, a fairly honourable defeat and The time of the angels / Łukasz Hudomięt
    • Medieval dramatic tradition revisited in Peter Barnes' Red noses / Dagmara Krzyżaniak
    • Translations and imitations of medieval texts in Neoclassicism: Chaucer as a "rough diamond" that "must first be polished ere he sines" / Joanna Maciulewicz
    • The witch in English literature: negotiation of power and gender politics / Malgorzata Milczarek
    • Teaching the English Middle Ages on film--possibilities, problems, perspectives / Hans Sauer
    • Alfred Tennyson's "Vivien" and "Guinevere": sensation stories in medieval setting / Agnieszka Setecka
    • The alchemy of love: representing desire in a medievalist (con)text. Lindsay Clarke's The chymical wedding / Liliana Sikorska
    • Medieval bestiaries and modern beasts--the making of beast fables in contemporary literature / Anna Warmuz
    • Some Boethian and ecclesiological themes in C.S. Lewis's Screwtape letters / Andrej Wicher
    • Blind Hary's The wallace and Mel Gibson's Braveheart: what do medieval romance and Hollywood film have in common? / Wladyslaw Witalisz.
    ISBN
    • 9783631572177 (pbk.)
    • 3631572174 (pbk.)
    OCLC
    185038801
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    H - S
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