The Arthurian world

by Coldham-Fussell, Victoria Edlich-Muth, Miriam Ward, Renée

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Full title :The Arthurian world / edited by Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, and Renée Ward.

Summary

"The Arthurian story can be seen as an evolving constellation of characters and themes that remain recognisable as they pass through different material, literary, social and contexts. This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes to encompass a global perspective on the Arthurian narrative as it has been presented in different media and different time periods. From early Welsh poetry to the twenty-first century animé series produced by the Fate franchise, the essays in this collection explore the continuities that make the material recognisable in different times and places and the astonishing variety of adaptations that have made the Arthurian story popular in large parts of the world. Divided into 3 main sections: Arthurian Texts and Material Contexts: 600-1600; The European World of Arthur: 1200-1800; Crossing Genres, Crossing Centuries: 1500-2018 the book focuses on the moments of transition in which Arthurian material has moved across temporal, material, and geographical boundaries. Although broadly chronological, the sections are bound together by their thematic focal points and contain different examples of textual and visual representations of Arthur that illustrate the breadth and scope of Arthurian adaptation"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 579 pages : : illustrations (black and white) ; : 26 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780367172701, 0367172704, 9781032186320, 1032186321
oclc:on1261878851
LC Classification:PN685
Dewey Decimal:809/.93351

PART 1: THE WORLD OF ARTHUR IN THE BRITISH ISLES -- King Arthur: Hero or Legend? / P.J.C. Field -- The Invention of Arthurian Britain: Arthur in the Early Welsh Literary Tradition / Helen Fulton -- Arthur Among the Nine Worthies / Audrey Martin and David Mason -- Prophecy and Place in the Arthurian Tradition / Victoria Flood -- Spenser, Malory, and Regionalism in Arthurian Literature / Kenneth Hodges -- The Postmedieval Arthur at War / Andrew Lynch -- The Arthurian Legends in the Sixteenth Century: The Misfortunes of Arthur and The Faerie Queene / Andrew Hadfield -- "What's past is prologue": Early Modern Explorations of Arthurian Romance and Shakespeare's The Tempest / Claudia Olk -- Victorian Medievalisms: Rehabilitating Arthur in Eleonora Louisa Hervey's Feasts / Renée Ward -- Staging Guenevere's Maternity in Richard Hovey's The Marriage of Guenevere and The Birth of Galahad / Virginia Blanton -- PART 2: THE EUROPEAN WORLD OF ARTHUR -- The Byelorussian Tristan / Milica Spremić Končar -- Continuity and Discontinuity in the Irish Arthurian Romances / Bernadette Smelik -- No Country for Young Men: The Challenge of the Medieval Greek Old Knight / Thomas H. Crofts -- A Not-So-Unique…

Subjects

Adaptations Arthurian romances Arthurian romances -- Adaptations Arthurian romances -- History and criti… Arthurian romances -- Sources Criticism, interpretation, etc Critiques littéraires Cycle d'Arthur -- Histoire et critique Cycle d'Arthur -- Sources literary criticism Sources