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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Garland, 2000.
Description:	xi, 590 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Arthurian characters and themes ; v. 5 Garland reference library of the humanities ; v. 1510 Arthurian characters and themes ; vol. 5. Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1510.
Subject:	Grail -- Romances -- History and criticism. Arthurian romances -- History and criticism. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Arthurian romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism. Knights and knighthood in literature. Quests (Expeditions) in literature. Arthurian romances. Grail -- Legends. Knights and knighthood in literature. Literature, Medieval. Quests (Expeditions) in literature. Adaptations. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4149671

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Other authors / contributors:	Mahoney, Dhira B.
ISBN:	0815306482 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Collection of twenty essays, seven of which were written for this work. Includes bibliographical references.

Table of Contents:

Series Editor's Preface
Introduction and Comparative Table of Medieval Texts
Select Bibliography
Chapter 1. The Quest for Origins
Chapter 2. The Central Symbol of the Legend: The Grail as Vessel
Chapter 3. Perceval or Le Conte du Graal
Chapter 4. Tout Est par Senefiance: Gerbert's Perceval
Chapter 5. Punishment in the Perlesvaus: The Theme of the Waste Land
Chapter 6. A Story of Interpretations: The Queste del Saint Graal as Metaliterature
Chapter 7. Dying to Get to Sarras: Perceval's Sister and the Grail Quest
Chapter 8. Failure in Arthurian Romance
Chapter 9. Seeing the Grail: Prolegomena to a Study of Grail Imagery in Arthurian Manuscripts
Chapter 10. The Symbolism of the Grail in Wolfram von Eschenbach
Chapter 11. The Truest and Holiest Tale: Malory's Transformation of La Queste del Saint Graal
Chapter 12. Chivalric Nationalism and the Holy Grail in John Hardyng's Chronicle
Chapter 13. Scandals of Faith and Gender in Tennyson's Grail Poems
Chapter 14. "Pure Hearts and Clean Hands": The Victorian and the Grail
Chapter 15. From Logres to Carbonek: The Arthuriad of Charles Williams
Chapter 16. T. S. Eliot
Chapter 17. Walker Percy's Grail
Chapter 18. The Grail in Modern Fiction: Sacred Symbol in a Secular Age
Chapter 19. Hollywood's New Weston: The Grail Myth in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and John Boorman's Excalibur
Chapter 20. Eric Rohmer and the Holy Grail

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