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000340905 1001_ $$aKnight, Stephen,$$d1940-
000340905 24510 $$aMerlin :$$bknowledge and power through the ages /$$cStephen Knight.
000340905 260__ $$aIthaca :$$bCornell University Press,$$c2009.
000340905 300__ $$axvii, 275 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c25 cm.
000340905 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000340905 5050_ $$aBritish Myrddin-Merlin: wisdom. Myrddin-Merlin -- The earliest materials -- Natural wisdom: Myrddin of Cumbria -- Prophetic wisdom: Myrddin of Wales -- Wisdom at court: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae -- Twelfth-century natural wisdom: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini -- Medieval Merlin: advice. From prophecy to advice: Wace -- Christian advice: Robert de Boron -- Grand Vizier: the vulgate Merlin -- Darkening advice: the post-vulgate Merlin -- Advising a nation: from Layamon to Malory -- English Merlin: cleverness. Prophecy and advice in decline -- Renaissance cleverness -- Cleverness high and low: the seventeenth century -- Cleverness high and low: the eighteenth century -- The dangers of cleverness: the romantics -- The dangers of cleverness: the Victorians -- International Merlin: education. Continental Merlin: from cleverness back to wisdom -- Toward education: America -- Toward education: Britain -- Education and the novel: White, Lewis, and Cooper -- Education and the novel: historicism, juveniles, and fantasy -- Merlin on screen -- International Merlin.
000340905 520__ $$aHere, Knight argues that Merlin in all his guises represents a conflict basic to Western societies - the clash between knowledge and power. While the Merlin story varies over time, the underlying structural tension remains the same whether its takes the form of bard versus lord, magician versus monarch, or scientist versus capitalist.
000340905 650_0 $$aMerlin (Legendary character) in literature.
000340905 650_0 $$aMerlin (Legendary character)
000340905 650_0 $$aKnowledge, Theory of, in literature.
000340905 650_0 $$aPower (Social sciences) in literature.
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