A companion to Arthurian literature /
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Imprint: | Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. |
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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 |
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