The Subject of Violence

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This book provides the reader with a new, challenging, andsophisticated critical analysis of the Song of Roland." --Choice"(Haidu's) close reading of the Song of Roland isinteresting, informative, and significant... " -- American HistoricalReview"Probably the most sophisticated book ever written onthe Song of Roland.... It is at once a work of linguistic analysis, of literarytheory, of literary history, and, finally, of history." -- R. HowardBlochHaidu argues that the 12th-century Song of Roland played anessential role in the creation of the nation-state, in that the narrative transformsthe independent and violent warriors of the feudal period into the subordinateinstruments of the nation-state by enforcing on them the subjection to the rule ofmonarchy.