| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 175 pages) |
| Series |
Arthurian studies, 0261-9814 ; 59 |
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Arthurian studies ; 59. 0261-9814
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| Contents |
Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval -- The Welsh Peredur -- Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie -- The French Vulgate cycle Estoire del Saint Graal -- The Didot Perceval -- The continuations of Chrétien's Perceval -- Perlesvaus -- The French Vulgate cycle Queste del Saint Graal -- Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur -- The Celtic pagan origin theories -- The Christian origin theories -- The mystery cult fertility ritual theories -- The influence of the Celtic pagan and mystery cult fertility ritual -- Origin theories on modern British and American Arthurian fiction -- The Christian Grail in modern British and American Arthurian fiction -- The origin controversy and cultural conflict in modern British and American Grail fiction -- Modern syncretism and the Grail -- Battle for the Grail: whose legend is it anyway? -- Tennyson, White, and following writers' humanist views of the Grail -- Skepticism regarding the Grail visions -- Psychologizing the grail -- Mythologizing the Grail and making it metaphor -- Grail quest as metaphor in twentieth-century British and American Arthuriana -- The power of Glastonbury and the reality of the Grail -- Esoteric knowledge and the mystery cult of the Grail -- Secret societies and conspiracies -- Alternative spirituality, self-realization, and a Grail for the new age |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grail -- Legends -- History and criticism
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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Grail -- Legends
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Literature, Modern
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Letterkunde.
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Engels.
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Amerikaans.
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Legenden.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846152702 |
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1846152704 |
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