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1 online resource (234 pages) |
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Gallica ; v. 1 |
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Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 1.
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| Contents |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; Part I. Founding Myths:Nature, Culture, and the Production of a British Kingdom; 1. First Encounters: Gadifer in the Deserts d'Escoce; 2. Testing Boundaries: Colonial Culture and Indigenous Nature; 3. The King, His Law, and His Kingdom; Part II. Heteronormative Sexuality and the Mission Civilisatrice; 4. Compulsory Love; 5. Marriage and the Management of Difference: Between Incest and Miscegenation; 6. Sexual Violence, Imperial Conquest, and the Bonds between Men; 7. Lest We Forget: The Trojan War as Cultural Matrix |
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8. Lest We Remember: The Artifice of HistoryCONCLUSION; GLOSSARY OF PROPER NAMES IN PERCEFOREST; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
This vast romance chronicles an imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers an exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Perceforest. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92056690
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Perceforest fast |
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Romances -- History and criticism
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Romances
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Roman de Perceforest (anoniem)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846155826 |
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1846155827 |
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