Wounded Knights
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" Wounded Knights is a well-researched, ambitious, and compelling contribution to the topic of masculinity and violence in medieval romance, horror film, and beyond. Alfred Thomas explores a rich range of texts in multiple languages, including French, Middle English, Czech, German, and Latin, and his Freudian analyses are both illuminating and inspiring. His multimedia approach to the topic is also worthy of praise, from F. W. Murnau to Alfred Hitchcock, casting a spell of interdisciplinary and rewarding insights. This book is sure to delight film buffs, newcomers to film studies and medieval literature, and seasoned academics alike." (Curtis Runstedler, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of English Literature and Cultures, University of Stuttgart, Germany)
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Alfred Thomas is Professor of English at University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. His most recently published books include The Czech Legend of St. Catherine of Alexandria: The Text and its Context (2024), Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 (2022), The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture: Art and Literature in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet (2020), Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages: Maimed Rights (2018), and Reading Women in Late Medieval Europe: Anne of Bohemia and Chaucer's Female Audience (2015).
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1. Introduction: Violence; Masculinity, and Medieval Courtly Love.- 2. Bad Blood: The Spectral Jew, the Transgressive Woman, and Mimetic Rivalry in Hartmann von Aue's Der arme Heinrich and Erec.- 3. The Shattered Mirror: Male Subjectivity and Sadomasochism in the Courtly Love Lyrics of Heinrich von Morungen.- 4. The Murderous Mirror: The Love Potion and the Cave of Lovers in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan.- 5. The Saint and the Heretic: Violence and Deviance in the Czech Legend of St Catherine of Alexandria.- 6. Death and the Maiden: Mourning, Melancholy, and Misogyny in Der Ackermann aus Böhmen and Pearl.- 7. The Return of the Medieval Repressed: Violence and Courtly Love in Modern Fiction and Horror Film.