| The Bayeux Tapestry: New Interpretations Contributor(s): Foys, Martin (Editor), Karen Overbey, Karen (Editor), Terkla, Dan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1843834707 ISBN-13: 9781843834700 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2009 Annotation: New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General |
| Dewey: 746.394 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.9" W x 9.6" (1.80 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: (Provisional) In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tapestry has begun to consider issues beyond its sources and analogues, dating, origin and purpose, and site of display. This volume demonstrates the utility of more recent interpretive approaches to this famous textile, especially with regards to notions of gender, materiality, reception theory, cultural criticism, performativity, spatial narrative, New Historicism, and post-structuralism. It brings to ten new essays from emerging and established scholars that frame vital issues for the future of Tapestry scholarship. An exhaustive bibliography of three centuries of critical writings closes out the work. Its essays are notable for their original perspectives on the textile and engage myriad critical concerns: the (New-) historical layering of meaning, representational systems of gender difference, visuality, memory and architecture, the revisionary power of crossing cultural and literary belief with material repair, synesthesia and graphic rhetoric of the auditory, modern obsessions with author-like patronage, post-colonial notions of territory and saintly relics, and the function of historiography and media. |