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When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

When the Dead Rise: Narratives of the Revenant, from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Livermore, Christian

Hardcover

Literary CriticismParanormalFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1843845768
ISBN13: 9781843845768
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Jan 16 2021
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today.

The proliferation of books and films about the undead, those literally returning from the grave, in modern popular culture has been commented on as a recent phenomenon, but it is in fact a storytelling tradition going back more than a millennium. It drew on and was influenced by Christian eschatology, gathered momentum in medieval ecclesiastical chronicles, such as those written by Caesarius of Heisterbach, and then migrated into imaginative literature - famously in John Lydgate's Dance of Death - and art. But why did revenant stories and imagery take such a hold in the Middle Ages? And why has that fascination held on into today's world?

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