The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781032423814 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

Opis

From the cuneiform tablets of the city of Nineveh to the colored motion pictures of Hollywood’s silver screens and beyond, these chapters offer fresh perspectives on the emergence, development, and influence of the hybrid (human/non-human) monarch literary archetype in classical and modern works

Spis treści

List of Contributors

 

Acknowledgments

 

I-              Introduction: Gods, Monarchs, and Monsters (Nizar Zouidi)

II-            (Inter)Section I: Ancient Worlds and Modern Subjectivity

1-    Enheduanna a Triple Threat: Princess, Priestess and Poet (Kate Doyle)

2-    In King Cambyses’ Vein: Representing Achaemenid Royal Figures in The Godly Queen Hester, The Story of King Darius and Cambyses (Nizar Zouidi)

3-    Ancient Modernity in Agatha Christies’ Akhnaton (Edmund P. Cueva)

III-         (Inter)Section II: Epic Cycles of the Divine, the Human and the Monstrous

4-    Gilgamesh: The First Bildungsroman, Or Portrait of the King Becoming a Man (Michael Bryson)

5-    Kingship and Vedic Literature: Inflections, Deflections and Reflections (Abhisek Ghosal)

6-    Cinematic Pentheus the Human King and His Cousin the God Dionysus (Edmund P. Cueva)

IV-          (Inter)Section III: Royal Archetypes and American Culture

7-    After Homer: Monarchal Peacemaking and Eco-Survival in Anna Lee Waldo’s Epic Sacajawea (Nancy Ann Watanabe)

8-    Royal Archetypes and Comic Book Characters: An Interview with Al Milgrom (Liam Webb)

9-    Royalty and Heroism in Comic Books: Interviews with Gerry Conway, Don Glut, Bob McLeod, Walt Simonson and Louise Simonson (Liam Webb)

V-            (Inter)Section IV: (Re)-Writing the Medieval Monarch

10- The Changing Destiny of King Arthur in Medieval Romances and Verse Narratives (Albrecht Classen)

11- Time-Haunted Mutability, Cognition, And Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (Joe Keener)

12- King Arthur, Baseball, and Gangsters: Cinematic Embracing and Subverting of Le Morte d’Arthur in The Natural (1984) and The Godfather (1972) (John M. Price)

 

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O autorze

Nizar Zouidi is assistant professor of English language and literature at the university of Gafsa, Tunisia. He is the author of several articles and book chapters about characters in Renaissance drama and other literary periods and genres. Nizar has recently edited a collection on the Performativity of villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media (2021) and contributed to the Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature (2022). He gave talks at different international conferences.