Helmers, M;
(2021)
Ambient literature as an act of faith in the York medieval mystery cycle.
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Abstract
This paper seeks to correct a conceptual amnesia by using the vocabulary of ambient literature to discuss the medieval production of the Corpus Christi mystery cycle at York – with particular emphasis on the Crucifixion pageant. In its technological and narrative elements, the 14th-16th century dramaturgy will serve as a critical framework to judge the survivability of literary ambience beyond the temporal social and material realities of an ‘everyday shared world.’ Case-studies of modern reproductions of the medieval mystery play will show how a situated literary ambience resists anachronistic manipulation.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Ambient literature as an act of faith in the York medieval mystery cycle |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.1755-4527.113 |
| Publisher version: | https://10.14324/111.1755-4527.113 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Miriam Helmers. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) 4.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | ambience, ambient literature, York mystery cycle, medieval mystery play, faith, Crucifixion, pageant |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10138541 |
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