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TOLKIEN (JOHN RONALD REUEL), 1892-1973 --- MOYEN AGE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- MEDIEVISME --- LITTERATURE FANTASTIQUE ANGLAISE --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- HISTOIRE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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German literature --- Medievalism --- Middle Ages in literature --- Littérature allemande --- Moyen Age dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature allemande --- Moyen Age dans la littérature

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Psychological study of literature --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Drama --- Shakespeare, William --- SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616) --- MEDIEVISME --- MOYEN AGE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- FIGURES DE STYLE ET DE RHETORIQUE --- TRAGEDIES --- MISE EN SCENE --- CONNAISSANCE --- LITTERATURE --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- HISTOIRE --- 16E SIECLE

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J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with Twenty-First century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.

Literature and history --- Fantasy fiction, English --- Medievalism --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Middle Earth (Imaginary place) --- Middle Ages in literature. --- History in literature. --- Littérature et histoire --- Roman fantastique anglais --- Médiévisme --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Terre du Milieu (Lieu imaginaire) --- Moyen Age dans la littérature --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Tolkien, J. R. R. --- Littérature et histoire --- Médiévisme --- Postmodernisme (Littérature) --- Moyen Age dans la littérature --- Histoire dans la littérature --- TOLKIEN (JOHN RONALD REUEL), 1892-1973 --- MOYEN AGE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- LITTERATURE ET HISTOIRE --- LITTERATURE FANTASTIQUE --- MEDIEVISME --- CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE

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Performing the Middle Ages from ‘Beowulf’ to ‘Othello’ traces the dialogic nature of the relationship between the Middle Ages and modernity. Arguing that modern beliefs in the alterity of the Middle Ages stem from the Middle Ages’ own processes of self-representation, Johnston explores varieties of nostalgia through a wide selection of texts. This volume spans an extensive chronological period with a view to demonstrating how our notions of the medieval have been crucially informed by the past itself. The study is focused on works which stage that popular literary archetype — the nostalgic figure of the aristocratic warrior — and argues that it is this image that provides a structural model for so many modern perspectives on the Middle Ages. And yet, in the Middle Ages this model was being deconstructed as it was also being generated. By moving from the self-consciously archaic heroism of Beowulf to the scathing comment on chivalric narrative presented in Chaucer’s ‘Knight’s Tale’, Johnston’s analysis offers an intriguing insight into the way medieval texts engage in a continual aesthetic and ideological critique of their own cultural moment. Using Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Morte Arthure as examples of an incisive critique of the cult of subjectivity and of a highly self-conscious desire for tradition, Johnston extends his analysis to the early seventeenth century, and explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s Othello brilliantly deconstructs the very concept of ‘Renaissance Man’. With its interest in issues of subjectivity, textual performance, and the ideological self-awareness of medieval culture, Performing the Middle Ages provides a scholarly and compelling investigation into the Middle Ages’ ability both to understand itself and to shape (post)modern notions of the medieval.

History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Middeleeuwen in de literatuur --- Middle Ages in literature --- Moyen-Age dans la littérature --- English literature --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- Littérature anglaise --- Civilisation médiévale --- Moyen-Âge --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature