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dc.contributor.authorKing, Griffin D
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-05T12:56:57Z
dc.date.available2023-09-05T12:56:57Z
dc.date.issued2023-08-22
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/82930
dc.description.abstractAddressing the lacuna in academic scholarship on the rhetoric used by the alt-right Incel subgroup, this thesis consider how (and perhaps why) the “Incel” movement has misappropriated medievalisms. Drawing on existing scholarship on both Incels and performed masculinities in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, this thesis aims to explain how Incels orient themselves in relation with medievalisms, using Le Morte as a touchstone for both its interest in masculinity and its popularity. By considering how Malory uses the Pentecostal Oath to push a normative performance of masculinity, this thesis asks how a 15th century work both contributes to and questions ideas of hegemonic gender binaries. This thesis advances discussions on how academia tends to study only a part of the wider alt-right community when looking at appropriated medievalisms, and that academics may need to broaden their gaze to fully understand the depth and width in which medievalisms are being abused for contemporary political discourse.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectMalory, Thomasen_US
dc.subjectMaloryen_US
dc.subjectSir Thomas Maloryen_US
dc.subjectGender Performanceen_US
dc.subjectMerlinen_US
dc.subjectNynyveen_US
dc.subjectPentecostal Oathen_US
dc.subjectHegemonyen_US
dc.subjectIncelen_US
dc.subjectAlt-Righten_US
dc.subjectLe Morte Darthuren_US
dc.subjectArthurianen_US
dc.subjectAggrieved Entitlementen_US
dc.subjectFatalismen_US
dc.subjectGender Essentialismen_US
dc.subjectWhite Knighten_US
dc.subjectWorshipen_US
dc.subjectChivalryen_US
dc.subjectMisogynyen_US
dc.titleWHITE KNIGHTS AND THE PENTECOSTAL OATH: THE LINEAGE OF ALT-RIGHT AND INCEL MASCULINITIES IN SIR THOMAS MALORY’S LE MORTE DARTHURen_US
dc.date.defence2023-08-22
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerN/Aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorDr. Bart Vautouren_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Elizabeth Edwardsen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr. Bart Vautouren_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDr. Kathleen Cawseyen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
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