Culture and the king : the social implications of the Arthurian legend : essays in honor of Valerie M. Lagorio /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1994. |
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| Description: | vi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in mediaeval studies SUNY series in medieval studies |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1578059 |
Table of Contents:
- A Tribute
- Mildred Leake Day
- Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend
- Part I. The Middle Ages: Inventing a Lost Past
- Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : Subtle and Political
- Lévi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal Fictions
- Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes
- The Knight as Reader of Arthurian Romance
- The Stanzaic Morte Arthur : The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English Audience
- Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick II
- A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones
- The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other Animals
- Politicizing the Ineffable: The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's "Tale of the Sankgreal"
- "The Prowess of Hands": The Psychology of Alchemy in Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth"
- How Many Roads to Camelot: The Married Knight in Malory
- Part II. Reinventing the Middle Ages
- Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie Queene
- Arthur Before and After the Revolution: The Blome-Stansby Edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains Glory (1684)
- Reluctant Redactor: William Dyce Reads the Legend
- The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian Prostitute
- Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of Avalon
- Camelot 3000 and the Future of Arthur
- Index