| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 267 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Arthurian studies ; 54 |
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Arthurian studies ; 54.
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| Contents |
Chivalry, Cistercianism and the grail / Richard Barber -- The making of the Lancelot-Grail cycle / Elspeth Kennedy -- A question of time : romance and history / Richard Trachsler -- The Vulgate cycle and the Post-Vulgate roman du graal / Fanni Bogdanow -- Interlace and the cyclic imagination / Douglas Kelly -- The gateway to the Lancelot-Grail cycle : L'estoire del Saint Graal / Carol J. Chase -- The Merlin and its Suite / Annie Combes -- The Book of Lancelot / Carol Dover -- Refining the center : verse and prose Charrette / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- The Queste del saint Graal : from semblance to veraie semblance / Emmanuèle Baumgartner -- The sense of an ending : La mort le roi Artu / Norris J. Lacy -- 'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail : the first 150 years of the illustrative tradition / Alison Stones -- The Lancelot-Grail cycle in England : Malory and his predecessors / Helen Cooper -- Lancelot in Italy / Donald L. Hoffman -- Lancelot in Germany / Hans-Hugo Steinhoff -- The Spanish Lancelot-Grail heritage / Michael Harney -- Neither sublime nor gallant : the Portugese Demanda and the new destiny of man / Haquira Osakabe -- The Lancelots of the lowlands / Frank Brandsma -- Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail cycle in England and Wales : some books and their owners / Roger Middleton -- Towards a modern reception of the Lancelot-Grail cycle / Carol Dover |
| Summary |
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-257) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lancelot (Legendary character) -- Romances -- History and criticism
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| SUBJECT |
Lancelot (Legendary character) fast |
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Lancelot (Prose cycle) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50074428
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Lancelot (Prose cycle) fast |
| Subject |
Grail -- Legends -- History and criticism
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Arthurian romances.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Romances
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Arthurian romances
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Grail -- Legends
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dover, Carol, 1943-
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| ISBN |
1846150485 |
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9781846150487 |
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