In American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for politics reasons, and the use of the myth for the continuation of an aesthetic tradition that can be traced back to the earliest use of the Arthurian cycle by writers in the British Isles. This work traces the use of the legend from Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court to Donald Barthelme's novel The King. It discusses how Twain used the myth to take a stand against England, how it served cultural and aesthetic purposes in John Steinbeck's writing, how Raymond Chandler used it...
In American fiction, two forms of the Arthurian myth are commonly found: the use of the myth for politics reasons, and the use of the myth for the con...
