Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction di Earl R. Anderson edito da McFarland
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Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction

An International Study

Editore:

McFarland

EAN:

9781476673004

ISBN:

1476673004

Pagine:
242
Formato:
Paperback
Lingua:
Inglese
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Descrizione Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction

Focusing on modern-day fiction set in the Middle Ages or that incorporates medieval elements, this study examines storytelling components and rhetorical tropes in more than 60 works in five languages by more than 40 authors. Medievalist fiction got its ""postmodern"" start with such authors as Calvino, Fuentes, Carpentier and Eco. Its momentum increased since the 1990s with writers whose work has received less critical attention, like Laura Esquivel, Tariq Ali, Matthew Pearl, Matilde Asensi, Ildefonso Falcones, Andrew Davison, Bernard Cornwell, Donnal Woolfolk Cross, Ariana Franklin, Nicole Griffith, Levi Grossman, Conn Iggulden, Edward Rutherfurd, Javier Sierra, Alan Moore and Brenda Vantrease. The author explores a wide range of ""medievalizing"" tropes, discusses the negative responses of postmodernism and posits four ""hard problems"" in medievalist fiction.

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