The Arthurian way of death : the English tradition /
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| Imprint: | Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2009. |
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| Description: | 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English Middle English |
| Series: | Arthurian studies ; 74 Arthurian studies ; 74. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7903060 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I. The Early Tradition in England
- 1. 'But here Geoffrey falls silent': Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie
- 2. Mordred's Sons
- 3. Dying in Uncle Arthur's Arms and at His Hands
- Part II. Middle English Romance and Malory
- 4. 'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and 'britned to no3t': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil
- 5. Love and Death in Arthurian Romance
- 6. Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript
- 7. The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur
- 8. Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain
- 9. 'Layde to the Colde Erthe': Death, Arthur's Knights, and Narrative Closure
- Part III. Medieval Influence and Modern Arthuriana
- 10. Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above
- 11. Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson's Idylls of the King
- 12. Death as 'Neglect of Duty' in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
- 13. Death and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In Parenthesis
- 14. Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur
- Index
