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"Focusing on modern-day fiction set in the Middle Ages or that incorporates medieval elements, this study examines storytelling components and rhetorical tropes in more than 60 works in five languages by more than 40 authors. Medievalist fiction got its ""postmodern"" start with such authors as Calvino, Fuentes, Carpentier and Eco. Its momentum increased since the 1990s with writers whose work has received less critical attention, like Laura Esquivel, Tariq Ali, Matthew Pearl, Matilde Asensi, Ildefonso Falcones, Andrew Davison, Bernard Cornwell, Donnal Woolfolk Cross, Ariana Franklin, Nicole Griffith, Levi Grossman, Conn Iggulden, Edward Rutherfurd, Javier Sierra, Alan Moore and Brenda Vantrease. The author explores a wide range of ""medievalizing"" tropes, discusses the negative responses of postmodernism and posits four ""hard problems"" in medievalist fiction."

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9781476673004

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“There is much to appreciate and admire about Earl R. Anderson’s compendious detailing of ‘medievalist fiction’...readers will be rewarded by the expert summary and presentation of major works of literature and criticism forming recognized and less recognized instances of literary medievalisms of the twentieth century.”—Medievally Speaking

There is much to appreciate and admire about Earl R. Anderson's compendious detailing of 'medievalist fiction'...readers will be rewarded by the expert summary and presentation of major works of literature and criticism forming recognized and less recognized instances of literary medievalisms of the twentieth century. --Medievally Speaking

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Earl R. Anderson is professor emeritus and a former dean of Arts & Sciences at Cleveland State University. He has published books on Cynewulf, Beowulf, and semantics in literature. He lives in Concord, North Carolina.

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