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The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State
The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State, 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
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The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State, 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 , The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State
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  • The Subject of Violence: The Song of Roland and the Birth of the State
  • Written by author Peter Haidu
  • Published by Indiana University Press, August 1993
  • "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 "
  • "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
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Violence: Modern Perspectives on the Medieval and the Modern1
1The Semiotization of Death: Open Text Or Closed?17
2The Gaze of the Other36
The Sociological Presentation of the Self36
The Intertextuality of the Peerage42
3Excursus I: Aesthetics, Economics, Politics44
Beauty, Value, Violence44
The Noble, the Knight, the Peasant49
The Ideology of Knighthood53
4The Subsystem of the Professional Warrior: Courage, Contradiction, Irascibility66
Ideological Value (I): The Constitution and Destitution of Subjects69
Ideological Value (II): From Subject to Traitor?76
Structure of Structures83
5The Destinator's Multiple Roles: Syncretism Or Contradiction?85
The Culpable Guarantor85
From Individual to Role97
6Excursus II: The Play of Absence and Presence in Medieval Kingship101
Carles li reis, . . .102
. . . nostre emperere magnes111
Reis and Emperere Textualized115
7Funerary Rituals120
The Unreintegrated Mourner120
The Death of Aude, or the Refusal of Exchange128
The Transformative Performance133
8Textual Coherence and the Dialectics of Ideology135
Textual Coherence: The Narrative137
Narrative Programs139
Actants143
9Ganelon's Trial, Or the Monarch's Revolution152
The Actorial Level: Inexorable Structure155
The Actantial Distribution174
10Conclusion178
The Chanson Ends with the Indeterminacy of Non-Exclusive Disjunction178
The Chanson Produces Limited and Specifiable Significations181
The Subject of Violence186
Nomadic Violence, Sedentary Economics, and the Birth of the State193
Notes211
Bibliography237
General Index248
Index of Proper Nouns253
Index of Foreign Terms and Phrases256


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