Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook

ISBN-13: 9780415939119 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 390 str.

Lori Walters

Opis

This title examines the portrayal of Lancelot and Guinevere from their origins to 2001, and the 16 essays deal with such topics as feminist readings of the characters' representations, the depiction of the lovers in medieval manuscript illuminations, in film, and in other visual arts.

Recenzje

"This accomplished and informative casebook should have wide appeal for teachers and students of medieval, modern, and comparative literature and culture." -- Choice

Spis treści

The Figure of Lancelot in the Lancelot-Graal, Elspeth Kennedy * Lancelot and Guinevere in the Middle Dutch Lancelot-Compilation, Bart Besamusca * Illustrating Lancelot and Guinevere, Alison Stones * Unifying Makers: Lancelot and Guinevere in Modern Literature and Art, Muriel Whitaker * Which Queen? Guinevere's Transvestism in the French Prose Lancelot, E. Jane Burns * The Presentation of the Character of Lancelot: Chr tien to Malory, Derek Brewer * Lancelot: A Flawless Hero in a Symmetrical World, James A. Schultz * An Interpreter's Dilemma: Why Are There So Many Interpretations of Chr tien's Chevalier de la Charrette?, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner * Arthurian Myth Devalued in Walker Percy's Lancelot, John Bugge * Lancelot's Last Metamorphosis, Jean-Marcel Paquette , translated by Marco D. Roman * The Character of Guinevere in the Arthurian Romances of Chr tien de Troyes, Peter Noble * Guinevere: A Re-Appraisal, Susanne Samples * Desire, Meaning, and the Female Reader: The Problem in Chr tien's Charrete, Roberta Krueger * Recovering Malory's Guinevere, Sarah J. Hill * The Figure of Guenevere in Modern Drama and Fiction, Elisabeth Brewer * Sharan Newman's Guinevere Trilogy, Harold J. Herman * Bibliography

O autorze

Lori J. Walters