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Studies in Medievalism XXII
2013·218 pages
Academic essays on corporations and medievalism, from dystopian fiction and branding to art, film, and comics.
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In the wake of the many passionate responses to its predecessor, Studies in Medievalism 22 also addresses the role of corporations in medievalism. Amid the three opening essays, Amy S. Kaufman examines how three modern novelists have refracted contemporary corporate culture through an imagined and highly dystopic Middle Ages. On either side of that paper, Elizabeth Emery and Richard Utz explore how the Woolworth Company and Google have variously promoted, distorted, appropriated, resisted, and r...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Brief academic discussion of dystopian fiction, Beowulf, and hell imagery
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Recurring analysis of Commedia, Pre-Reformation, cathedrals, salvation themes
Magic & witchcraft
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Passing discussion of medievalist fantasy in film and comics
Occult / demonology
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Academic treatment of Gates of Hell and a ghostly cathedral tale
Political content
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Central focus on corporate power, feudal metaphors, and academic motives
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Mentions of enslavement/feudal corporate metaphors in dystopian framing
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