The Persistence of Medievalism : Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture
- Author / Editor
- Weisl, Angela Jane.
The Persistence of Medievalism : Narrative Adventures in Contemporary Culture
- Published
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
- Physical Description
- ix, 277 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Weisl explores residual traces in contemporary American popular culture of medieval narrative structures and patterns - e.g., pilgrimage, veneration of relics, conversion, heroic accomplishment, romance, fabliau - identifying such patterns in sports (especially baseball), popular news scandals, film, and television. Recurrent references to Chaucer. Includes bibliography and index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.