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American/Medieval - Nature and Mind in Cultural Transfer
of: Gillian R. Overing, Ulrike Wiethaus
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress, 2016
ISBN: 9783847006251 , 237 Pages
Format: PDF
Copy protection: DRM
Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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Body
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Acknowledgments
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Gillian R. Overing and Ulrike Wiethaus: Introduction: The Making of American/Medieval
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Medievalism and the American/Medieval
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American/Medieval: The Challenge of Definition
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A/M: Old Trauma, New Archives, and Creatures on the Move
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New Archives
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Creatures on the Move
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Conclusion
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Select Bibliography
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Part One: Old Trauma
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Tina Marie Boyer: Medieval Imaginations and Internet Role-Playing Games
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Introduction
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Slender Man
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American Imaginations of the Medieval and Slender Man
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Bibliography
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Sol Miguel-Prendes: Medieval Iberian Studies: Borders, Bridges, Fences
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Boundaries
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Bridges
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Fences
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Bibliography
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Ulrike Wiethaus: “Yet another group of cowboys riding around the same old rock”: Religion and the German-American Genesis of a Capitalist Stereotype
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Introduction
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From Mammon to Letzter Mensch
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Indigeneity and Doomed Pre-capitalist Wholeness
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The Natural Habitat, Race, and Sexual Threat of Homo capitalisticus
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The Puritan Spirit and the Desires of the Id
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Contemporary American Mutations of Medieval DNA
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Bibliography
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Part Two: New Archives
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Joshua Davies: “Beyond the Profane”: Machine Gothic and the Cultural Memory of the Future
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Gothic Origins
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American Gothic
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Railroad Gothic
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Colonial Gothic
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Bibliography
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Mary Kate Hurley: “Scars of History”: Game of Thrones and American Origin Stories
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Scars of History: Time, Nostalgia, and the Wounds of the Past
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Scars of Fantasy: Westerosi History and Time's Wounds
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Scars of Time: Martin's “Medieval” World
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Scars of History: Toward the American/Medieval
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Bibliography
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Gale Sigal: At What Price Arthur? Academic Autobiography, Medieval Studies, and the American Medieval
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Introduction
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In the Middle or On the Margins?
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The Rise of Medievalism: England as a European Prototype
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Medieval Studies and Medievalism in the United States: A Transatlantic Conversation
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American “Medieval Times”: Commerce, Contemplation, and Entertainment
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Contemplative American Medieval Places: Quietly Hosting the Authentic
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Going to the American South: At What Price Arthur?
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Bibliography
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Part Three: Creatures on the Move
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Clare A. Lees: In Three Poems: Medieval and Modern in Seamus Heaney, Maureen Duffy and Colette Bryce
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The Poet and the Critic: Seamus Heaney and Helen Vendler
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First Poem: “Hermit Songs,” Scribes and Scholars
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Second Poem: “Lex Innocentis 697,” Maureen Duffy and the Law of the Innocents
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Third Poem: Colette Bryce's “Asylum,” Iona, Ireland and Exile
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In Three Poems
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Bibliography
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Margaret D. Zulick: The Fox and the Furry: The Animal Tale and Virtual Narrative in Rhetorical Narrative Analysis
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Introduction
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Animal Tales and Narrative Theory in Western Civic Tradition
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American/Medieval: Stories of Reynard the Fox and Brer Rabbit
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Animal Tales in Virtual Worlds
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Conclusions
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Bibliography
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Ulrike Wiethaus: The Black Swan and Pope Joan: Double Lives and the American/Medieval
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Introduction
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The Doppelgänger in Religion and Secular Culture
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Contemporary Film: Transatlantic Crossings
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Author Biographies
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Index
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