The Passing of Arthur: New Essays in Arthurian Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781138778047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 342 str.

Christopher Baswell; William Sharpe

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No Arthurian story is experienced without some foreknowledge of its end, which the text acknowledges through a complex range of methods. This collection takes this as its point of origin, suggesting that all such narratives concern the passing of Arthur, even indirectly, so the chapters not only look at the death of Arthur but the passing on and development of the Arthurian literature.

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Preface  Introduction  Part 1: Arthur in Medieval France  1. Life in La Mort le roi Artu Charles Méla  2. The King’s Sin: The Origins of the David-Arthur Parallel M. Victoria Guerin  3. Desire, Meaning, and the Female Reader: The Problem in Chrétien’s Charrete Roberta L. Krueger  4. Aspects of Arthur’s Death in Medieval Illumination M. Alison Stones  Appendix: Survey of Manuscripts Illustrating Arthur’s Death  Part 2: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Passing of Judgment Marie Borroff  6. Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History, and Revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sheila Fisher  7. The "Syngne of Surfet" and the Surfeit of Signs in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight R. Allen Shoaf  Part 3: Spenser’s Arthur  8. The Passing of Arthur in Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare: The Avoidance of Closure A. Kent Hieatt  9. Arthur, Argante, and the Ideal Vision: An Exercise in Speculation and Parody Judith Anderson  10. "Beauties Chace": Arthur and Women in The Faerie Queen Sheila T. Cavanagh  Part 4: The Pastness of Arthur in the Victorian Era  11. Tennyson and the Passing of Arthur John D. Rosenberg  12. Ideological Battleground: Tennyson, Morris, and the Pastness of the Past Jonathan Freedman  13. Victorian Spellbinders: Arthurian Women and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle Carole Silver   14. The Last Idyll: Dozing in Avalon William E. Fredeman Appendix: Survey of Arthurian Subjects in Victorian Art