Contact Zones -

Contact Zones

Fur, Minerals, Milk, and Other Things

Elizabeth S. Leet (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
V, 126 Seiten
2024 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-19854-0 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 1, March 2020. 



Elizabeth S. Leet Assistant Professor of French Department of Modern Languages, Washington & Jeffferson College, Washington, PA, USA

Writing companions: Toward a critical entanglement with the more-than-human world, Elizabeth S. Leet.- Human and insect bookworms, Emma Maggie Solberg.- Francis's animal brotherhood in Thomas of Celano's Vita Prima, Brandon Alakas & Day Bulger.- Reading the medieval fur experience: Peire Vidal and the poverty of Pelletiers, Sarah-Grace Heller.- Becoming object/becoming queen: the marital contact zone in Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide, Elizabeth S. Leet.- 'Do not allow an empty goblet to face the moon': lyrical materialities in the drinking poems of Li Bai (701-762) and Du Fu (712-770), Elizabeth Harper.- Jahangiri portrait shasts: Material-discursive practices and visuality at the Mughal court, Krista Hall Gulbransen.- The hungry monk: Bernard of Clairvaux in a trans-corporeal landscape, Melanie Holcomb.- 'Skin black and wrinkled': The toxic ecology of the Sibyl's cave, Alan S. Montroso.- 'De aymant en dyamant': Lexical transmutations in the works of Philippe de Mézières, Julie Singer.- Drink up! Losing yourself in the contact zone, Stacy Alaimo.- Posthumanism and the claim to rational action, Karl Steel.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo V, 126 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 279 mm
Gewicht 341 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte Literature and Animal Studies • Medieval Literature • Middle Ages • Object studies • posthumanism
ISBN-10 3-031-19854-9 / 3031198549
ISBN-13 978-3-031-19854-0 / 9783031198540
Zustand Neuware
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