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Auteur(s) : Faletra, Michael A. (1972-....)
Titre(s) : Wales and the medieval colonial imagination [Texte imprimé] : the matters of Britain in the twelfth century / Michael A. Faletra
Publication : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Description matérielle : 243 pages ; 23 cm
Collection : The new Middle Ages
Lien à la collection : The new Middle Ages
Comprend : Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Matter of Wales ; Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden
: Courtly Britain and Its Others ; Chrétien de Troyes, Wales, and the Matiere of Britain
; Crooked Greeks : Hybridity, History, and Gerald of Wales ; Epilogue : The Birds
of Rhiannon.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index
Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Michael A.
Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles
and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial
interest in Wales and the Welsh. Viewing the Welsh as England's original repressed
Other, this book identifies and critiques the ways in which medieval narratives construe
Wales as a barbaric peripheral zone requiring colonial control. By focusing on texts
across a variety of genres by some of the major literary figures of the period - including
Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, Gerald of Wales, Walter
Map, and John of Salisbury - Faletra offers innovative new readings that illuminate
both the subtle power and the imaginative limitations of these matters of Britain.
--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais)
Littérature galloise -- 1100-1550
Politique et littérature -- Angleterre (GB) -- Histoire
Relations -- Angleterre (GB) -- Pays de Galles (GB)
Relations -- Pays de Galles (GB) -- Angleterre (GB)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137391025. - ISBN 1137391022
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb439115515
Notice n° :
FRBNF43911551
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