Affective medievalism : love, abjection and discontent / / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg

• Autore: Prendergast Thomas A (Thomas Augustine)
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2018; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 940.1072
• Soggetto topico: Middle Ages - Historiography; Literature, Medieval - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Middle Ages in literature; Medieval Literature; Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
• Soggetto non controllato: Affect; Death; Disciplinary; Discontent; Future; Love; Medieval; Medievalism; Modernity; Nostalgia; disciplinarity; medieval studies
• Persona (resp. second.): TriggStephanie <1958->
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-147) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Affective medievalism
• ISBN: 1-5261-4799-8; 1-5261-4200-7; 1-5261-2687-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910793023103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Manchester medieval literature and culture ; ; 21.