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The non-human agency of a thing in Orendel or The Grey Robe
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dc.contributor.author | Bildhauer, Bettina M | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-04T16:30:07Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-04T16:30:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-09-30 | |
dc.identifier | 274286663 | |
dc.identifier | 01afc4e5-b1cf-4c22-b6c0-0623d7e379b2 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bildhauer , B M 2021 , ' The non-human agency of a thing in Orendel or The Grey Robe ' , MEMO: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online , vol. 3 , 2021q003 . https://doi.org/10.25536/2021q003 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2523-2932 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-1055-9441/work/100901074 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/24087 | |
dc.description.abstract | An emerging research consensus on Orendel or the Grey Robe has begun to consider the seamless tunic of Christ to be of central importance for this text, and to suggest that the narrative should be considered a thing biography of this robe rather than as a bridal quest epic focusing on a human protagonist. This article furthers this interpretation by analyzing the way in which the narrative suggests that the robe as a protagonist has a kind of agency that is not that of a pseudo-human subject, but of an inanimate thing: through giving it the role of a character in the narrative, putting it in a grammatically and semantically active position, and blurring the distinction between robe and wearer. This non-anthropocentric notion of agency can refine contemporary new materialist understandings of the agency of things. | |
dc.format.extent | 14 | |
dc.format.extent | 2159241 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | MEMO: Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture Online | en |
dc.subject | D111 Medieval History | en |
dc.subject | PD Germanic languages | en |
dc.subject | T-NDAS | en |
dc.subject.lcc | D111 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | PD | en |
dc.title | The non-human agency of a thing in Orendel or The Grey Robe | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. German | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.25536/2021q003 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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