| Description |
xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
The chief romances of the Grail: a preview -- The origins and growth of Arthurian romance -- Celtic myths, their mutations and combinations -- The first Grail story, the Conte del Graal of Chrétien de Troyes -- The Grail bearer, the question test, and the fisher king -- The first sequel to the Conte del Graal: the corpse on the bier and the broken sword -- Irish Echtrai: the waste land and the bleeding lance -- Manessier's sequel and Peredur: the mission of revenge -- Perlesvaus: Welsh talismans and a Welsh Elysium -- Sone de Nansai and the Mabinogi of Branwen -- The prose Lancelot: combat and scandal in the Castle of King Pelles -- The Queste del Saint Graal: Celtic story-patterns in Cistercian allegory -- Parzival, the spiritual biography of a knight -- Joseph of Arimathea, an evangelist by error -- Glastonbury, school of forgery and Isle of Avalon -- The end of the quest |
| Notes |
Bibliographical footnotes. 'Bibliography of critical works and of major texts of the Grall legend': p.<278>-279 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. "Bibliography of critical works and of major texts of the Grail legend": pages [278]-279 |
| Subject |
Grail -- Legends -- History and criticism.
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Grail.
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Mythology, Celtic, in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Legends.
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| LC no. |
63012947 |
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