Companion to Arthurian literature / edited by Helen Fulton.
Fulton, Helen, 1952-
PN685 .C55 2012 (Mapit)
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Companion to Arthurian literature / edited by Helen Fulton.
ISBN
9780470672372 paperback
0470672374 paperback
Publication Details
Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, c2009.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 571 p. : ill., port. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
PN685 .C55 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.93351
Summary
"This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings of the contemporary manifestations of Arthur in film and electronic media. Leading scholars review Arthurian legends and their transformations, language-to-language, text-to-film, and medieval-to-modern adaptations are analyzed, and key concepts such as "empire," "romance," and "chivalry" are explored." "Beginning with the historical Arthur and his Celtic origins, this volume chronicles the transmission of the legend throughout Britain and Europe. Arthurian legends within the medieval and Victorian literary movements and the iconography of Arthurian themes in art are surveyed, and the symbolic role of Arthur in modernist literature ushers in the twentieth century, while the feminist approach of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon initiates a genre of fantasy fiction based on a richly conceived Arthurian world. Finally, the Companion highlights the rebirth and legacy of the Arthurian legend in contemporary films and computer games." "Part of Blackwell's popular Companions to Literature and Culture series, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and leaves no doubt as to why it is still important today."
Note
Originally published: 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Fulton, Helen, 1952-
Series
Blackwell companions to literature and culture.
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The Arthur of history. The end of Roman Britain and the coming of the Saxons : an archaeological context for Arthur? / Alan Lane ; Early Latin sources : fragments of a pseudo-historical Arthur / N.J. Higham ; History and myth : Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae / Helen Fulton ; The chronicle tradition / Lister M. Matheson
Celtic origins of the Arthurian legend. The historical context : Wales and England 800-1200 / Karen Jankulak and Jonathan M. Wooding ; Arthur and Merlin in early Welsh literature : fantasy and magic naturalism / Helen Fulton ; The Arthurian legend in Scotland and Cornwall / Juliette Wood ; Arthur and the Irish / Joseph Falaky Nagy ; Migrating narratives : Peredur, Owain, and Geraint / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
Continental Arthurian traditions. The "matter of Britain" on the continent and the legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain / Joan Tasker Grimbert ; Chrétien de Troyes and the invention of Arthurian courtly fiction / Roberta L. Krueger ; The allure of otherworlds : the Arthurian romances in Germany / Will Hasty ; Scandinavian versions of Arthurian romance / Geraldine Barnes ; The Grail and French Arthurian romance / Edward Donald Kennedy
Arthur in medieval English literature. The English Brut tradition / Julia Marvin ; Arthurian romance in English popular tradition : Sir Percyvell of Gales, Sir Cleges, and Sir Launfal / Ad Putter ; English chivalry and Sir Gawain and the green knight / Carolyne Larrington ; Sir Gawain in Middle English romance / Roger Dalrymple ; The medieval English Tristan / Tony Davenport
From medieval to medievalism. Malory's Morte Darthur and history / Andrew Lynch ; Malory's Lancelot and Guenevere / Elizabeth Archibald ; Malory and the quest for the Holy Grail / Raluca L. Radulescu ; The Arthurian legend in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Alan Lupack ; Scholarship and popular culture in the nineteenth century / David Matthews ; Arthur in Victorian poetry / Inga Bryden ; King Arthur in art / Jeanne Fox-Friedman
Arthur in the modern age. A postmodern subject in Camelot : Mark Twain's (re)vision of Malory's Morte Darthur in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court / Robert Paul Lamb ; T.H. White's The once and future king / Andrew Hadfield ; Modernist Arthur : the Welsh revival / Geraint Evans ; Historical fiction and the post-imperial Arthur / Tom Shippey ; Feminism and the fantasy tradition : the mists of Avalon / Jan Shaw
Arthur on film. Remediating Arthur / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Schichtman ; Arthur's American round table : the Hollywood tradition / Susan Aronstein ; The art of Arthurian cinema / Lesley Coote ; Digital divagations in a hyperreal Camelot : Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur / Nickolas Haydock.

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