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Haunting at Troy : = Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Haunting at Troy :/
Reminder of title:	Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature.
Author:	Heor, Woo Ree.
Description:	1 online resource (167 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-11A.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30425972click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379538675

Haunting at Troy : = Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature.
Heor, Woo Ree.

Haunting at Troy :Troy Narratives, Trauma, and Desire for the Past in Late Medieval English Literature. - 1 online resource (167 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

The mythical city of Troy functioned as an imagined point of origin for many medieval nations, providing a tangible connection to the legendary past and nation-building tools useful for the ruling class. Troy provided a convenient foundation narrative upon which ideas of collective identity could be built for these nations, and England, where construction of a homogeneous past was difficult due to frequent ruptures in its development of communal identity, was an eager producer and consumer of such a legitimizing device. However, the trauma of war and destruction intrinsic in Troy narratives also generates potent political anxiety about the reanimated past. Using trauma theory and spectrality theory as a theoretical framework, this project aims to understand Troy in late medieval English literature as a place where the desires for, and anxieties towards, the classical past converge into a complex display of ontological fantasies. Specifically, this project examines Hector, Criseyde, and the Arthurian descendants of Troy as figures embodying the medieval concept of Trojanness, expressed through narrative attempts to control their political personae and sexuality. The Troy Book by John Lydgate depicts Hector as a complex exemplar, who demonstrates desirable and undesirable qualities for an aristocratic male identity, in turn betraying political anxieties about Troy as a traumatic point of origin fraught with images of destruction. This ontological trauma is translated into the Arthurian Britain in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where Trojan heritage is as much an ominous sign of treachery and ruin as a foundation of collective identity. The dichotomy of fascination and revulsion towards Troy, a common thread in these texts, is epitomized by the figure of Criseyde as seen in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Robert Henryson, who signifies the repeated theme of loss and treachery inherent in the medieval concept of Trojanness.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379538675Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Collective identityIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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