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<p><i>Alliterative Revivals</i> is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and acknowledging potentially threatening figures from the medieval past—pagan judges, primeval giants, Greek knights, Jewish forefathers, Egyptian sorcerers, and dead ancestors. In addressing t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christine Chism
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585436210
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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