Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England [electronic resource] / by Rosanne P. Gasse.

Gasse, Rosanne P.
Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783031314650 978-3-031-31465-0
Yer Numarası
EK/2581
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2023.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 252 p. online resource.
Dizi
The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction: Notions of Hybridity -- 2. Mixed Ethnicity in the Romances of Medieval England: The Hybridity of Identity -- 3. Fathers and Mothers: The Case for Hybrid Identity in Medieval Merlin and Melusine Romances -- 4. Monsters and Shapeshifters: The Hybrid Body in John Gower’s Confessio Amantis -- 5. The Living, the Dead, and Those In-Between: The Hybridity of Dying -- 6. Epilogue: Hybridity’s End?
Özet, vb.
Hybridity in the Literature of Medieval England offers a wide-ranging exploration of hybridity in medieval English literature. Anxiety about hybridity surfaces in characters of mixed ethnic identity in the romances. But anxiety is found also in the intersection of the natural and the supernatural and its site can be located inside the human body’s unstable physical frame, living and dead, as much as in the cultural and social forces at work upon the human body politic at large. Hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference in that, while it is grounded in difference, hybridity points toward sameness. The four types of hybridity studied in medieval English literature show that hybridity can resolve the problems caused by difference. Understanding medieval hybridity can help us to deal with our own contemporary struggles with the mixtures of our own lives and societies. Rosanne Gasse is Professor of English Literature at Brandon University, Canada. Her work has been published in journals such as The Chaucer Review, JEGP, and Enarratio and she is the Reviews Editor for The Canadian Journal of Native Studies.
Konu
Literature, Medieval.
Literature __ History and criticism.
Europe __ History __ 476-1492.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Medieval Literature.
Literary Criticism.
History of Medieval Europe.
Medieval Philosophy.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)