Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts

ISBN-13: 9781138327146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Gloria Allaire

Opis

Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods.

Spis treści

1. Desire and mythic intertext: refigurations of Tristan in Moderato Cantabile, Deborah Lesko Baker  2. The Lady of Shalott: Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny and Pynchon, Kathleen Coyne Kelly  3. Stomping on the Shoulders of Giants: Thomas Berger’s, Arthur Rex, Lee Tobin McClain  4. The Unholy Grail: Recasting the Grail Myth for an Unbelievable Age, MaryLynn Saul  5. Transforming the Proud King Transformed: Robert of Sicily, Stephen D. Powell  6. The Modernist Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s Refashioning of Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, Pauline Scott  7. Re-Visible Spenser: The Quest in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, Christine Herold  8. The Reformulation of Orlando in Giuseppe Bonaviri’s Novelle Sacacene, Barbara De Marco  9. From Medieval Realism to Modern Fantasy: Guerrino Meschino through the centuries, Gloria Allaire  10. Coming Full Circle: Romance as Romanzo in Elsa Morante’s L’isola di Arturo, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg.

O autorze

Gloria Allaire