Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Oxford Quick Reference
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN :
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend offers a comprehensive survey of the Arthurian legends in all their manifestations, from the earliest medieval texts to their appearances in contemporary culture. Essential reading for Arthurian scholars, medievalists, and for those interested in myth and legend.
Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0470672374
This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to contemporary culture. Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the most recent works Features an impressive range of well-known international contributors Examines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canon, including film and computer games Underscores an understanding of Arthurian literature as fundamental to western literary tradition
Author : Elizabeth Archibald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521860598
Covers the evolution of the legend over time and analyses the major themes that have emerged.
Author : Siân Echard
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783164530
King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that there was a Latin Arthurian tradition which extended beyond Geoffrey. This collection of essays will highlight different aspects of that tradition, allowing readers to see the well-known and the obscure as part of a larger, often coherent whole. These Latin-literate scholars were as interested as their vernacular counterparts in the origins and stories of Britain's greatest heroes, and they made their own significant contributions to his myth.
Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9780815334835
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author :
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786837374
From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dutch literature were of central importance in this expansion of Arthurian material from the 12th to 16th century. This title deals with this topic.
Author : Susan Austin
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1648893317
The King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller’s time and values. The chapters in this book look at movies, manga, comic books, a television show, and traditional books released since 1960 to explore some of the ways King Arthur has been reimagined in the past 60 years. Interpreting Avalon High and The Kind Who Would Be King, Camelot 3000 and King Arthur vs. Dracula, Fate/Zero, John Steinbeck’s The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, the influence of Arthurian legend on Harry Potter, Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, John Boorman’s Excalibur, Jerry Zucker’s First Knight, Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword, Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels, and the BBC series Merlin, the authors find that while we are still interested in the idea of King Arthur, we may also want his story to be more racially and gender inclusive, less elitist, and in some cases, more secular.
Author :
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783161582
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
Author : Bart Besamusca
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 178683684X
There is no book-length overview of the Dutch Arthurian tradition in English available at this moment. Like the other books in the ALMA series, this book will give the state of the art in (in this case Dutch) Arthurian studies. This book provides a comprehensive and informed survey of medieval Arthurian literature in Dutch.
Author : William Raymond Johnston Barron
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN :
*Subtitled 'The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature'. The first comprehensive study of the Arthurian legend in English life and literature. Barron investigates the process by which the legend was transmitted and assimilated into English cultural heritage and history.
