Dude, this book ys for real?

Hey. . . where’s that essay I wrote twelve years ago on narrative unreliability in Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I think its time has come!

(They also need a chapter on the reification of puns.)

Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages

Table of contents

PART I: MEDIEVAL, REALITY, TELEVISION
Models of (Im)Perfection: Parodic Refunctioning in Spike TV’s The Joe Schmo Show and Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Tale of Sir Thopas”–Kimberly K. Bell

“She appears as brightly radiant as she once was foul”: Medieval Conversion Narratives and Contemporary Makeover Shows”–Angela Jane Weisl

Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Moral Lessons from Handlyng Synne and Survivor–Cynthia A. Ho and James Driggers

Back to the Future: Living the Liminal Life in the Manor House and the Medieval Dream Vision–Betsy McCormick
 

PART III: MEDIEVAL, REALITY, POLITICS
The Crisis of Legitimation in Bush’s American and Henry IV’s England–Daniel T. Kline

Torture, Inquisition, Medievalism, Reality, TV–Steve Guthrie

Wolves, Outlaws, and Enemy Combatants–Michael E. Moore

Exteriority Is Not a Negation But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf–Eileen A. Joy