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A companion to Arthurian literature

Author: Helen Fulton
Publisher: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 58.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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."  Read more...
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Genre/Form: 0 Gesamtdarstellung
Named Person: Arthur, King.; Artus.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Helen Fulton
ISBN: 9781405157896 1405157895
OCLC Number: 209788964
Description: xiv, 571 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 58.
Responsibility: edited by Helen Fulton.
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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.  Read more...

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