The Knights of Modernism: The Chivalric Ideal in the World Novel of the 20th Century

ISBN-13: 9783662619315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 270 str.

Branko Vranes

Spis treści

Knight of the Rueful Countenance.- Knight Errant.-  Knight of the Holy Grail.- Lady.

O autorze

Branko Vraneš, PhD, is assistant professor at the Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, teaching Serbian Literature of the 20th Century at the Department for Serbian and South Slavic Literatures, Visiting Researcher at the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 2014.

Blurb

The modern novel did not only begin, but also ended with a travesty of the chivalric ideal. The deep need of a significant number of modernist writers to measure their own time according to the ideals of the high and late Middle Ages cannot, therefore, be explained by a set of literary-historical, spiritual-historical or social circumstances. The predilection of a range of twentieth century novelists for a distant feudal past suggests that there exists a fundamental poetic connection between the modern (or at least the modernist) novel and the ideals of chivalry.