The Year's Work in Medievalism 2003

Description: The Years Work in Medievalism: 2003 is based upon but not restricted to the 2003 proceedings of the annual International Conference on Medievalism organized by the Director of Conferences for Studies in Medievalism Gwendolyn Morgan and for 2003 Tom Shippey of St. Louis University. The essays of the current volume center on the question of creating identity at the person political and national levels through the use of medievalism. Gwendolyn A. Morgan Medievalism and the Creation of Identity Anne Thornton Romancing a Romantic: The Lais of Marie de France and Certain Keatsian Odes Edward L. Risden Tolkien Riceour and Eliot: The World of the Text and the 20th-Century Wasteland Grace Chiu Chan The Medievalism of Kantorowicz: Bildung Jewish Identity and National Socialism James R. Keller The Power of His Horror: Abjection and Macbeth Marjon Ames Reigning Arthur In: Mythological Appropriation and the English Monarchy Peter G. Christensen Searching for God and Arthur: Jim Hunters Percival and the Presence of God Robert Sirabian Anglo-Saxonism and Charles Kingsleys Hereward the Wake: Last of the English About the Contributor(s): The editor of this volume and General Editor of The Years Work in Medievalism series Gwendolyn A. Morgan is Professor of British Literature and Languages at Montana State University--Bozeman.