A companion to Arthurian literature /

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Imprint:Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Description:xiv, 571 p. ; ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 58
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7539026
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Other authors / contributors:Fulton, Helen, 1952-
ISBN:9781405157896 (alk. paper)
1405157895 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Theories and Debates
  • Part I. The Arthur of History
  • 1. The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons An Archaeological Context for Arthur?
  • 2. Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur
  • 3. History and Myth: Geoffrey of MonmouthÆs Historia Regum Britanniae
  • 4. The Chronicle Tradition
  • Part II. Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend
  • 5. The Historical Context: Wales and England 800û1200
  • 6. Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism
  • 7. The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall
  • 8. Arthur and the Irish
  • 9. Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint Ceridwen
  • Part III. Continental Arthurian Traditions
  • 10. The ôMatter of Britainö on the Continent and the Legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain
  • 11. Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction
  • 12. The Allure of Otherworlds: The Arthurian Romances in Germany
  • 13. Scandinavian Versions of Arthurian Romance
  • 14. The Grail and French Arthurian Romance
  • Part IV. Arthur in Medieval English Literature
  • 15. The English Brut Tradition
  • 16. Arthurian Romance in English Popular Tradition: Sir Percyvell of Gales, Sir Cleges, and Sir
  • 17. English Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 18. Sir Gawain in Middle English Romance
  • 19. The Medieval English Tristan
  • Part V. From Medieval to Medievalism
  • 20. MaloryÆs Morte Darthur and History
  • 21. MaloryÆs Lancelot and Guenevere
  • 22. Malory and the Quest for the Holy Grail
  • 23. The Arthurian Legend in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
  • 24. Scholarship and Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century
  • 25. Arthur in Victorian Poetry
  • 26. King Arthur in Art
  • Part VI. Arthur in the Modern Age
  • 27. A Postmodern Subject in Camelot: Mark TwainÆs (Re)vision of MaloryÆs Morte Darthur in A Connecticut Yankee in King ArthurÆs Court
  • 28. T. H. WhiteÆs The Once and Future King
  • 29. Modernist Arthur: The Welsh Revival
  • 30. Historical Fiction and the Post-Imperial Arthur
  • 31. Feminism and the Fantasy Tradition: The Mists of
  • Part VII. Arthur on Film
  • 32. Remediating Arthur Laurie A. Finke and
  • 33. ArthurÆs American Round Table: The Hollywood Tradition
  • 34. The Art of Arthurian Cinema
  • 35. Digital Divagations in a Hyperreal Camelot: Antoine FuquaÆs King Arthur
  • Index