Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture Paperback edition: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/medieval-afterlives-in-contemporary-culture-9781350021617/
Published: 08-24-2017 Format: Paperback Edition: 1st Extent: 368 ISBN: 9781350021617 Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations Dimensions: 7 1/2" x 9 3/4" List price: $44.95
(Also available in hardcover [published in 2015]: http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/medieval-afterlives-in-contemporary-culture-9781441129604/)
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About Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
With contributions from 29 leading international scholars, this is the first single-volume guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture.
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including literature, film, TV, comic book adaptations, electronic media, performances, and commercial merchandise and tourism. Its lively chapters range from Spamalot to the RSC, Beowulf to Merlin, computer games to internet memes, opera to Young Adult fiction and contemporary poetry, and much more.
Also included is a companion website at https://medievalafterlives.wordpress.com/ aimed at general readers, academics, and students interested in the burgeoning field of medieval afterlives, complete with:
- Further reading/weblinks
- 'My favourite' guides to contemporary medieval appropriations
- Images and interviews
- Guide to library archives and manuscript collections
- Guide to heritage collection
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Living Medieval
Gail Ashton
I: True to Life: in the performance
1.Spamalot: Lovingly Ripping Off / Ripping On the Establishment
Jeff Massey and Brian Cogan
2. Medievalisms in Contemporary Opera
Robert Sturges
3. Medieval religious plays in England: afterlives and new lives through performance
Margaret Rogerson
4. Staging Chaucer: Mike Poulton and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
Sarah Peverley
5. You Can't Do This to Disney! Popular Medievalisms in the Classroom
Meriem Pagès
6. Medieval Times: Tournaments and Jousting in Twenty-first Century North America
Elizabeth Emery
II: To Turn You On: the pleasures of texts- film, TV, gaming
7. From Anglo-Saxon to Angelina: Adapting Beowulf for Film
Stewart Brookes
8. Contemporary Neomedieval Digital Gaming: An Overview of Genres
Daniel T. Kline
9. Survey of 21st 'Medieval' Film
Lesley Coote
10. 'Camelot must come before all else': Fantasy and family in the BBC Merlin
Philippa Semper
11. Electronic Tolkien: Characterization in Film and Video Games
Carol L. Robinson
12. Chaucer in a (Television) Box: The BBC Canterbury Tales (2003)
Kathleen Coyne Kelly
III: More Than This: reimagings and reappropriations
13. Global Chaucers
Candace Barrington and Jonathan Hsy
14. Silence in the Library?-Medievalist Poetry Shout-Out
Gail Ashton
15. Coming of Age in the Middle Ages: The Quest for Identity in Medieval Novels for Young Adults
Angela Jane Weisl
16. Australian Medievalism: Time and Paradox
Louise D'Arcens
17. Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe as Contemporary Cult Figures
Fiona Tolhurst
18. Conjuring the Ghosts of Camelot: Tintagel and the Medievalism of Heritage Tourism
Laurie A. Finke and Susan Aronstein
IV: Avalon: icons and artefacts
19. Medievalism and Heroism in Arthurian Literature for Young People
Ann F. Howey
20. New Age and Neopagan Medievalisms
Karolyn Kinane
21. 21st-Century Templar
Cory James Rushton
22. Malory's Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
Raluca L. Radulescu
23. 'We Are Robin Hood': The Outlaw Tradition in Contemporary Popular Culture
Rob Gossedge
24. Harry Potter and Medievalism
Renée Ward
V: The Space Between: new media and fandom
25. Social Networking, Participatory Culture, and the Fandom World of Harry Potter
Amanda K. Allen
26. 'Nightcrawler's Inferno' and other Hellish Tales: Comics Adaptations of Dante
Jason Tondro
27. From Camelot to Kaamelott: The Arthurian Legend in British, American and French Comics
Daniel Nastali
28. Afterlives of Medieval Manuscripts
Wendy Scase
29. Medieval Memes
Maggie M. Williams and Lauren C. Razzore
Notes on Contributors
Select Bibliography
Index
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture
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