UID:
edocfu_9961023282402883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-54554-2
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9786610545544
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1-84615-048-5
Series Statement:
Arthurian studies
Content:
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Mar 2023).
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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; THE CONTRIBUTORS; A NOTE ON THE LANCELOT-GRAIL CYCLE; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE LANCELOT-GRAIL CYCLE IN CONTEXT; 1. Chivalry, Cistercianism and the Grail; 2. The Making of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle; 3. A Question of Time: Romance and History; 4. The Vulgate Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal; PART II: THE ART OF THE LANCELOT-GRAIL CYCLE; 5. Interlace and the Cyclic Imagination; 6. The Gateway to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle: L'Estoire del Saint Graal; 7. The Merlin and its Suite; 8. The Book of Lancelot; 9. Redefining the Center: Verse and Prose Charrette
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10. The Queste del saint Graal: from semblance to veraie semblance11. The Sense of an Ending: La Mort le Roi Artu; 12. 'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail: the First 150 Years of the Illustrative Tradition; PART III: POSTERITY; 13. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England: Malory and his Predecessors; 14. Lancelot in Italy; 15. Lancelot in Germany; 16. The Spanish Lancelot-Grail Heritage; 17. Neither Sublime nor Gallant: The Portuguese Demanda and the New Destiny of Man; 18. The Lancelots of the Lowlands
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19. Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners20. Towards a Modern Reception of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle; 21. A Select Bibliography of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-85991-783-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846150487
