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Torture and brutality in medieval literature : negotiations of national identity
- Title
- Torture and brutality in medieval literature : negotiations of national identity / Larissa Tracy.
- Author
- Tracy, Larissa, 1974-
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2012.
- Supplementary Content
- Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 15-6031 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- x, 326 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book challenges preconceived ideas about the prevalence of torture and judicial brutality in medieval society by arguing that their portrayal in literature is not mimetic. Instead, it argues that the depictions of torture and brutality represent satire, critique and dissent; they have didactic and political functions in opposing the status quo. Torture and brutality are interetextual literary motifs that negotiate cultural anxieties of national identity; by situating these practices outside their own boundaries in the realm of the barbarian "Other", medieval and early-modern authors define themselves and their nations in opposition to them. Works examined range from Chaucer to the Scandinavian sagas to Shakespeare, enabling a true comparative approach." -- Cover - p. [4].
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
- Contents
- Rending the flesh : the orthodoxy of torture in hagiography -- Resisting the rod : torture and the anxieties of continental identity -- The matter of the north : Icelandic sagas and cultural autonomy -- The matter of Britain : defining English identity in opposition to torture -- Laughing at pain : the comic uses of torture and brutality -- Medieval torture and early-modern identity -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 15-6031
- ISBN
- 9781843842880
- 1843842882
- LCCN
- 2012518718
- OCLC
- 731910988
- Author
- Tracy, Larissa, 1974-
- Title
- Torture and brutality in medieval literature : negotiations of national identity / Larissa Tracy.
- Imprint
- Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2012.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 15-6031