King Arthur : A Casebook

ISBN-13: 9780815304951 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 368 str.

Edward Donald Kennedy

Opis

Discusses the Matter of Arthur as it has appeared in English, French, Latin, and German from the Middle Ages to the present. Examines the works of Harmann von Aue, Malory, Polydore Virgil, John Leland, Tennyson, T. H. White, and others; as well as works such as anonymous romances, Scottish Chronicle

Recenzje

"Welcome addition to the rapidly expanding shelves of Arthurian criticism." -- Speculum

Spis treści

Looking for Arthur, Marilyn Jackson Parins * Dux bellorum/rex militum/roi fainéant: The Transformation of Arthur in the Twelfth Century, Barbara N. Sargent-Baur * King Arthur and the Round Table in the Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue, William C. McDonald * King Arthur in the Prose Lancelot, Elspeth Kennedy * The Evolution of the Theme of the Fall of Arthur's Kingdom, Fanni Bogdanow * Appearances and Reality in La Mort le Roi Artu, Donald C. MacRae * King Arthur and Fortuna, Karl Josef Höltgen * Marlory's King Mark and King Arthur, Edward Donald Kennedy * King Arthur in Scottish Chronicles, Karl Heinz Göller * Polydore Vergil and John Leland on King Arthur: The Battle of the Books, James P. Carley * The Arthurs of the Faerie Queene, Merritt Y. Hughes * The Female King: Tennyson's Arthurian Apocalypse, Elliot L. Gilbert * To Take the Excalibur: King Arthur and the Construction of Victorian Manhood, Debra N. Mancoff * T.H. White and the Legend of King Arthur: From Animal Fantasy to Political Morality, François Gallix * Conceptions of King Arthur in the Twentieth Century, Raymond H. Thompson

O autorze

Edward Donald Kennedy