Overview

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 1, March 2020. 

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Author:   Elizabeth S. Leet
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.595kg
ISBN:  

9783031198519

ISBN 10:   3031198514
Pages:   126
Publication Date:   02 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Writing companions: Toward a critical entanglement with the more-than-human world, Elizabeth S. Leet.- Human and insect bookworms, Emma Maggie Solberg.- Francis’s animal brotherhood in Thomas of Celano’s Vita Prima, Brandon Alakas & Day Bulger.- Reading the medieval fur experience: Peire Vidal and the poverty of Pelletiers, Sarah-Grace Heller.- Becoming object/becoming queen: the marital contact zone in Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide, Elizabeth S. Leet.- ‘Do not allow an empty goblet to face the moon’: lyrical materialities in the drinking poems of Li Bai 李白(701–762) and Du Fu 杜甫 (712–770), Elizabeth Harper.- Jahāngīrī portrait shasts: Material-discursive practices and visuality at the Mughal court, Krista Hall Gulbransen.- The hungry monk: Bernard of Clairvaux in a trans-corporeal landscape, Melanie Holcomb.- ‘Skin black and wrinkled’: The toxic ecology of the Sibyl’s cave, Alan S. Montroso.- ‘De aymant en dyamant’: Lexical transmutations in the works of Philippe de Mézières, Julie Singer.- Drink up! Losing yourself in the contact zone, Stacy Alaimo.- Posthumanism and the claim to rational action, Karl Steel.

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Elizabeth S. Leet Assistant Professor of French Department of Modern Languages, Washington & Jeffferson College, Washington, PA, USA​

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