The Medieval Fold

Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-43349-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2776 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to pastoral power passively, they constructed fantasies and behaviors, redeploying or 'folding' it to create new forms of life and culture. Incorporating the work of Nietzsche, Foucault, Lacan, and Deleuze, Suzanne Verderber presents a model of the subject in which the opposition between interior self and external world is dislodged.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verderber, S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Gregorian Reform, Pastoral Power, and Subjection 2. The Courtly Fold: The Subjectivation of Pastoral Power and the Invention of Modern Eroticism 3. Chrétien de Troyes' Diagram of Power: Perceval Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Suzanne M. Verderber is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute.