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Autore |
Prendergast Thomas A (Thomas Augustine) |
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Titolo |
Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018 |
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©2018 |
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ISBN |
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1-5261-4799-8 |
1-5261-4200-7 |
1-5261-2687-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) : digital file(s) |
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Collana |
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Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Middle Ages - Historiography |
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Middle Ages in literature |
Medieval Literature |
Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2018. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-147) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Medieval and medievalist practice -- 1. The space of time and the medievalist imaginary -- 2. Wonderful things -- 3. Fear, error and death: The abjection of the Middle Ages -- 4. Loving the past -- 5. Discontent in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This work argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemological claims but on how feelings and temperaments affect the way we approach the Middle Ages. |
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