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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century (XML)

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to jo...

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Main Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25966858.v1
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spelling rr-article-259668582018-10-31T00:00:00Z The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century (XML) Jan M. Ziolkowski (18762946) art history classical music folklore Jules Massenet Le jongleur de Notre Dame literary history Mary Garden medievalism medieval studies Middle Ages Modernity performance studies philology reception studies This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life. Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before its translation into English in Britain and the United States. The visual influence of the tale on Gothic revivalism and vice versa in America is carefully documented with lavish and inventive illustrations, and Ziolkowski concludes with an examination of the explosion of interest in The Juggler of Notre Dame in the twentieth century and its place in mass culture today. In this volume Jan Ziolkowski follows the juggler of Notre Dame as he cavorts through new media, including radio, television, and film, becoming closely associated with Christmas and embedded in children’s literature. Presented with great clarity and simplicity, Ziolkowski's work is accessible to the general reader, while its many new discoveries will be valuable to academics in such fields and disciplines as medieval studies, medievalism, philology, literary history, art history, folklore, performance studies, and reception studies. 2018-10-31T00:00:00Z text Monograph 2134/25966858.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/monograph/The_Juggler_of_Notre_Dame_and_the_Medievalizing_of_Modernity_Volume_5_Tumbling_into_the_Twentieth_Century_XML_/25966858 CC BY 4.0
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The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century (XML)
title The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity: Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century (XML)
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topic art history
classical music
folklore
Jules Massenet
Le jongleur de Notre Dame
literary history
Mary Garden
medievalism
medieval studies
Middle Ages
Modernity
performance studies
philology
reception studies
url https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25966858.v1