Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9780815334835
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Thelma S. Fenster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134817533
Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the material of the Arthurian story. All the essays concentrate interpretation on a female creator and the work. This collection contains a useful bibliography of material devoted to female characters in Arthurian literature.
Author : Ann F. Howey
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2001-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Though firmly rooted in the Middle Ages, Arthurian legend has captivated readers since Caxton and Malory and continues to thrive today. By looking at contemporary reworkings of Arthuriana, this book explores the intersection of popular fiction and feminist discourses in Western society. It examines selected Arthurian novels and short stories by such women writers as Fay Sampson, Mary Stewart, Gillian Bradshaw, and Marion Zimmer Bradley to analyze the textual strategies that articulate feminist ideas. While these texts maintain continuity with established literary traditions through the replication of conventions, their reworking of women's roles encourages readers to engage liberal feminist ideology. The book first gives an overview of theories of popular fiction, feminism, and reading. It then surveys the medieval texts on which the Arthurian tradition is founded and which the contemporary texts rewrite. The chapters that follow discuss how popular contemporary women writers have reworked Arthurian legend through their narrative strategies and their representation of female character types, such as the royal woman and the magical woman.
Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136801294
Arthurian Literature by Women: An Anthology is a collection of Arthurian poems, stories, and plays by women, from Marie de France to the present, all of which are either significant examples of Arthurian literature or innovative interpretations of Arthurian tradition. Rather than reproducing brief selections from contemporary novels that are readil
Author : Maureen Fries
Publisher : Scripta Mercaturae
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A collection of critical essays on female characters in Arthurian literature and biographical essays on women Arthurian scholars. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst, literary inheritors of the feminist Arthurian legacy, these essays pay tribute to Maureen Fries, who played a ground-breaking role in re-examining traditional perceptions of the stories of King Arthur and his court as well as preconceptions about women scholars.
Author : Marion Wynne-Davies
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780333447109
This study of women in Arthurian literature covers writings from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Examining the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works, and the Arthurian women writers of the 20th century.
Author : Marion Wynne-Davies
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349244538
This is the first full-length study of the role of women in Arthurian literature. It covers writing from the medieval period, the Renaissance, the Victorian age and in contemporary fiction. Covering the key Arthurian texts, such as Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Malory's Morte D'arthur, Spenser's The Faerie Queene and Tennyson's Idylls, it also investigates the less well-known works by women: Lady Charlotte Guest's Mabinogion, Julia Margaret Cameron's illustration to Tennyson's works and, finally, the Arthurian women writers of the twentieth century.
Author : Katie Garner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137597127
This book reveals the breadth and depth of women’s engagements with Arthurian romance in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Tracing the variety of women’s responses to the medieval revival through Gothic literature, travel writing, scholarship, and decorative gift books, it argues that differences in the kinds of Arthurian materials read by and prepared for women produced a distinct female tradition in Arthurian writing. Examining the Arthurian interests of the best-selling female poets of the day, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and uncovering those of many of their contemporaries, the Arthurian myth in the Romantic period is a vibrant location for debates about the function of romance, the role of the imagination, and women’s place in literary history.
Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415969441
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Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 23,3 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136606335
First published in 1996. Now updated with a new information-packed 40-page Supplement covering the years 1990-1995, this unique Encyclopedia highlights the World of King Arthur from its origins in Dark Age Britain to the present day, when Arthurian novels, films, and music continue to appear around the world at an astonishing rate. The Supplement, which provides five full years of coverage not available anywhere else, enhances the usefulness of more than 1,300 entries on all aspects of the Arthurian legend-in literature, history, folklore, archaeology, art, and music. Written by an international team of over 130 authorities, no other work approaches this A-Z guide to the legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table for breadth and depth of coverage. This is the ultimate source for reliable information on topics as diverse as the Grail, Tristan and Isolde, Lancelot and Guenevere, Arthurian operas, the historicity of Arthur, and more.
