If you missed Geoffrey B. Elliott’s session this morning at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies, you can still catch him on Saturday either at “From Frodo to Fidelma: Medievalisms in Popular Genres” (1:30 p.m.) or at “Martin and More: Genre Medievalisms” (3:30 p.m.) Be sure to get a flyer–it has a coupon code for 35% off–from him for the new book edited by Helen Young, Fantasy and Science-Fiction Medievalisms.
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Other contributors who have contributed to this volume who will also be at the congress are Andrew B. R. Elliott and Kris Swank.
“Although there is indeed a preponderance of dirtiness in televisual Middle Ages that is symptomatic of Eco’s shaggy medievalism, its frequency does not necessarily reflect a wholesale shift to adult content but instead represents a fragmentation into increasingly niche—and carefully targeted—audiences; thus, only some of the medieval worlds on offer are shaggy.”
– Andrew B. R. Elliott ,
“Our Minds Are in the Gutter, But Some of Us Are Watching Starz…”,
Fantasy and Science-Fiction Medievalisms
Andrew B. R. Elliott will be presenting at the session “Political Medievalisms” on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
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“The fantastical elements in many of the tales—sorcerers, jinni, rukh—make the Arabian Nights a natural source of inspiration for the fantasy genre. They also provide authors with a different environment from the endlessly reworked European feudal setting of so much post-Tolkien fantasy.”
– Kris Swank ,
“The Arabian Nights in 21st-Century Fantasy Fiction and Film,”
Fantasy and Science-Fiction Medievalisms
Kris Swank will be presenting at the sessions“From Frodo to Fidelma: Medievalisms in Popular Genres” on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and “Tolkien as Linguist and Medievalist” on Sunday at 8:30 a.m.
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You can also download the flyer for Fantasy and Science-Fiction Medievalisms. This book is in the Cambria Studies in Classicism, Orientalism, and Medievalism book series (General Editor: Nickolas A. Haydock).
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