UID:
almahu_9949385431602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000522105
,
1000522105
,
9781003255475
,
1003255477
Series Statement:
Routledge worlds
Content:
"The Arthurian story can be seen as an evolving constellation of characters and themes that remain recognisable as they pass through different material, literary, social and contexts. This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes to encompass a global perspective on the Arthurian narrative as it has been presented in different media and different time periods. From early Welsh poetry to the twenty-first century animé series produced by the Fate franchise, the essays in this collection explore the continuities that make the material recognisable in different times and places and the astonishing variety of adaptations that have made the Arthurian story popular in large parts of the world. Divided into 3 main sections: Arthurian Texts and Material Contexts: 600-1600; The European World of Arthur: 1200-1800; Crossing Genres, Crossing Centuries: 1500-2018 the book focuses on the moments of transition in which Arthurian material has moved across temporal, material, and geographical boundaries. Although broadly chronological, the sections are bound together by their thematic focal points and contain different examples of textual and visual representations of Arthur that illustrate the breadth and scope of Arthurian adaptation"--
Note:
PART 1: THE WORLD OF ARTHUR IN THE BRITISH ISLES -- King Arthur: Hero or Legend? / P.J.C. Field -- The Invention of Arthurian Britain: Arthur in the Early Welsh Literary Tradition / Helen Fulton -- Arthur Among the Nine Worthies / Audrey Martin and David Mason -- Prophecy and Place in the Arthurian Tradition / Victoria Flood -- Spenser, Malory, and Regionalism in Arthurian Literature / Kenneth Hodges -- The Postmedieval Arthur at War / Andrew Lynch -- The Arthurian Legends in the Sixteenth Century: The Misfortunes of Arthur and The Faerie Queene / Andrew Hadfield -- "What's past is prologue": Early Modern Explorations of Arthurian Romance and Shakespeare's The Tempest / Claudia Olk -- Victorian Medievalisms: Rehabilitating Arthur in Eleonora Louisa Hervey's Feasts / Renée Ward -- Staging Guenevere's Maternity in Richard Hovey's The Marriage of Guenevere and The Birth of Galahad / Virginia Blanton -- PART 2: THE EUROPEAN WORLD OF ARTHUR -- The Byelorussian Tristan / Milica Spremić Končar -- Continuity and Discontinuity in the Irish Arthurian Romances / Bernadette Smelik -- No Country for Young Men: The Challenge of the Medieval Greek Old Knight / Thomas H. Crofts -- A Not-So-Unique Text: Melekh Artus and Medieval Jewish Arthurian Romance / Caroline Gruenbaum -- Viduvilt: The Yiddish World of Arthur / Annegret Oehme -- No Knights, No England, No Arthur: Arthurian Theater in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany / Cora Dietl -- Guiron le Courtois Across Borders: The Life of a Prose Narrative Cycle / Nicola Morato -- Optical Illusion, Illusory Objects, and the Quest of the Holy Grail in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus / Martha Baldon -- PART 3: THE MATERIAL WORLD OF ARTHUR -- Making and Illustrating Arthurian Manuscripts / Alison Stones -- Sir Palamedes the Indelibly "Saracen" Knight: Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts / Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan -- Minding the Gaps: Topology and Gender in the Remediation of Medieval German Arthurian Romance / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand -- Arthurian Imagination in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Art / Peter N. Lindfield FSA -- Finding Arthur in the Percy Folio / Katie Garner -- A History of Malory's Morte Darthur in Print / James Wade -- A Grave Discovery? Guinevere's Death and Burial at Amesbury in Medieval and Early Modern Tradition / Mary Bateman -- PART 4: THE TRANSVERSAL WORLD OF ARTHUR -- The Arthurian Legends in America / Alan Lupack -- In the Ancient Days of Sagas: Astrid Lindgren and the Legacy of Arthurian Romance / Sofia Lodén -- "Hail to the king[s], baby": Arthur vs Army of Darkness / Jeff Massey and Tabitha Ochtera -- Arthur in Modern Fantasy Literature / Shiloh Carroll -- Cinema Arthuriana and the Knights of the Not-So-Round Table / Kevin J. Harty -- The Grail is in Another Castle: The World of Arthur in Digital Games / Alicia McKenzie -- Desire and the Flexible Grail: The Japanese Fate Franchise and Evolving Notions of Arthurian Power / E. L. Risden -- "Moor" and "Saracen" in Medieval and Contemporary Arthurian Texts / Kris Swank -- Guy Ritchie, King Arthur, and the Great Conspiracy / Andrew B. R. Elliot.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Arthurian world Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367172701
Language:
English
Keywords:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
;
Literary criticism.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003255475
