| Description |
1 online resource (603 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Worlds Ser |
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Routledge Worlds Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: THE WORLD OF ARTHUR IN THE BRITISH ISLES -- 1 King Arthur: hero or legend? -- 2 The invention of Arthurian Britain: Arthur in the early Welsh literary tradition -- 3 Arthur among the Nine Worthies -- 4 Prophecy and place in the Arthurian tradition -- 5 Spenser, Malory, and regionalism in Arthurian literature -- 6 The post-medieval Arthur at war |
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7 The Arthurian legends in the sixteenth century: The Misfortunes of Arthur and The Faerie Queene -- 8 " What's past is prologue": early modern explorations of Arthurian romance and Shakespeare's The Tempest -- 9 Victorian medievalisms: rehabilitating Arthur in E. L. Hervey's The Feasts of Camelot -- 10 Staging Guenevere's maternity in Richard Hovey's The Marriage of Guenevere and The Birth of Galahad -- PART II: THE EUROPEAN WORLD OF ARTHUR -- 11 The Byelorussian Tristan -- 12 Continuity and discontinuity in the Irish Arthurian romances |
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13 No country for young men: the challenge of the medieval Greek Old Knight -- 14 A not-so-unique text: Melekh Artus and medieval Jewish Arthurian Romance -- 15 Viduvilt: the Yiddish world of Arthur -- 16 No knights, no England, no Arthur: Arthurian theater in fifteenth- and sixteenth- century Germany -- 17 Guiron le Courtois across borders: the life of a prose narrative cycle -- 18 Optical illusion, illusory objects, and the quest of the Holy Grail in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus -- PART III: THE MATERIAL WORLD OF ARTHUR -- 19 Making and illustrating Arthurian manuscripts |
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20 Sir Palamedes, the indelibly " Saracen" knight: heraldry, monstrosity, and race in fifteenth-century Arthurian romance manuscripts -- 21 Minding the gaps: topology and gender in the remediation of medieval German Arthurian romance -- 22 Arthurian imagination in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art -- 23 Finding Arthur in the Percy folio -- 24 A history of Malory's Morte Darthur in print -- 25 A grave discovery? Guinevere's death and burial at Amesbury in medieval and early modern tradition -- PART IV: THE TRANSVERSAL WORLD OF ARTHUR -- 26 The Arthurian legends in America |
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27 In the Ancient Days of Sagas: Astrid Lindgren and the legacy of Arthurian romance -- 28 " Hail to the king[s], baby": Arthur vs Army of Darkness -- 29 Arthur in modern fantasy literature -- 30 Cinema Arthuriana and the knights of the not-so-round table -- 31 The Grail is in another castle: the world of Arthur in digital games -- 32 Desire and the flexible Grail: the Japanese Fate franchise and evolving notions of Arthurian power -- 33 " Moor" and " Saracen" in medieval and contemporary Arthurian texts -- 34 Guy Ritchie, King Arthur, and the great conspiracy -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Edlich-Muth, Miriam
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Ward, Renée
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| ISBN |
9781000522020 |
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1000522024 |
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