Damned If You Do: Judas Iscariot And The Invention Of Medieval Literary Character
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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English
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2019-08-27T20:19:00-07:00
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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.
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Emily Steiner
Rita Copeland
Rita Copeland
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2019-01-01