Books by Leona Archer
Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in whi... more Picturing the end of the world is one of the most enduring of cultural practices. The ways in which people of different historical periods conceive of this endpoint reveals a great deal about their imagination and philosophical horizons. This groundbreaking collection of essays offers an overview of the Apocalyptic imagination as it presents itself in French literature and culture from the thirteenth century to the present day. The contributors analyse material as diverse as medieval French biblical commentaries and twenty-first-century science fiction, taking in established canonical authors alongside contemporary figures and less well-known writers. The book also considers a vast range of other subject matter, including horror films, absurdist drama, critical theory, medieval manuscript illuminations and seventeenth-century theology. Moving from the sacred to the profane, the sublime to the obscene, the divine to the post-human, the volume opens up more than 750 years of French Apocalypticism to critical scrutiny.
Papers by Leona Archer
Le Cœur dans tous ses états, ed. by Claire Bisdorff and Marie-Christine Clemente (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012)
Le cycle Lancelot-Graal (également connu sous le titre de la Vulgate) est un des premiers romans ... more Le cycle Lancelot-Graal (également connu sous le titre de la Vulgate) est un des premiers romans en prose de la littérature européenne occidentale. Il est composé de plusieurs textes qui forment un grand ensemble de légendes arthuriennes. Rédigé au début du XIIIème siècle, le corps central du cycle se compose des textes suivants : Lancelot en prose, La Queste del Saint Graal, et La Mort le Roi Artu. Deux autres textes furent composés peu de temps après, bien que leurs péripéties se situent avant les événements des romans précédents. Ces récits sont intitulés l'Estoire del Saint Graal et l'Estoire de Merlin. Le premier raconte l'histoire de Joseph d' Arimathie et le second relate la vie de Merlin, le règne du père d' Arthur (Uther Pendragon) et les premières années du règne du roi Arthur, y compris son mariage avec Guenièvre. La popularité des légendes arthuriennes tout au long du Moyen Âge est attestée par le nombre de manuscrits qui contiennent ces histoires, manuscrits qui ont des origines géographiques diverses, et proviennent d'une variété de traditions linguistiques et culturelles.
Conference Presentations by Leona Archer
This paper performs a critical examination of the relationship between gender and space in the th... more This paper performs a critical examination of the relationship between gender and space in the thirteenth-century Old French Lancelot-Grail Cycle. I argue that the sites in which genders and sexualities are established within the diegesis contribute to defining masculinity and femininity. In the context of the Lancelot-Grail, therefore, mapping space is also a question of mapping gender.
Gender is theorised as a social construct, culturally inscribed through a series of reiterative, citational practices. Social space as it is discussed within this paper is predicated on Lefebvrian and Foucauldian formulations of medieval space, involving an element of displacement in order to root the socially constructed subject within what is deemed to be his or her proper place. The placement and subsequent displacement of subjects involves a constant attempt to reinforce the boundaries that construct the gendered subject. I claim, however, that these frequent displacements produce opportunities for characters to transgress from established gender norms.
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Books by Leona Archer
Papers by Leona Archer
Conference Presentations by Leona Archer
Gender is theorised as a social construct, culturally inscribed through a series of reiterative, citational practices. Social space as it is discussed within this paper is predicated on Lefebvrian and Foucauldian formulations of medieval space, involving an element of displacement in order to root the socially constructed subject within what is deemed to be his or her proper place. The placement and subsequent displacement of subjects involves a constant attempt to reinforce the boundaries that construct the gendered subject. I claim, however, that these frequent displacements produce opportunities for characters to transgress from established gender norms.
Gender is theorised as a social construct, culturally inscribed through a series of reiterative, citational practices. Social space as it is discussed within this paper is predicated on Lefebvrian and Foucauldian formulations of medieval space, involving an element of displacement in order to root the socially constructed subject within what is deemed to be his or her proper place. The placement and subsequent displacement of subjects involves a constant attempt to reinforce the boundaries that construct the gendered subject. I claim, however, that these frequent displacements produce opportunities for characters to transgress from established gender norms.