The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State - Hardcover

Haidu, Peter

 
9780253305480: The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0253305489 ISBN 13: 9780253305480
Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1993

Synopsis

"This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, and sophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." ―Choice

"[Haidu's] close reading of the Song of Roland is interesting, informative, and significant . . . " ―American Historical Review

"Probably the most sophisticated book ever written on the Song of Roland. . . . It is at once a work of linguistic analysis, of literary theory, of literary history, and, finally, of history." ―R. Howard Bloch

Haidu argues that the 12th-century Song of Roland played an essential role in the creation of the nation-state, in that the narrative transforms the independent and violent warriors of the feudal period into the subordinate instruments of the nation-state by enforcing on them the subjection to the rule of monarchy.

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About the Author

PETER HAIDU is Professor of French at UCLA.

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Publisher
Indiana University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0253305489
ISBN 13 
9780253305480
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
272