Damned if You Do: Judas Iscariot and the Invention of Medieval Literary Character
Abstract
This project explores medieval literature as a site to disentangle the longstanding critical conflation of character and psychology. I use the figure of Judas Iscariot as a case study to argue that the seeming incoherence of medieval characters can reframe characterization as a tactic deployed by the text, rather than an unmediated reflection of human subjectivity.
Subject Area
British and Irish literature|Medieval literature
Recommended Citation
Min, Mariah, "Damned if You Do: Judas Iscariot and the Invention of Medieval Literary Character" (2019). Dissertations available from ProQuest. AAI13877678.
https://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI13877678