Arthurian Way of Death

K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University. THOMAS H. CROFTS is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he also co-directs the Minor in Classical and Medieval Studies.

Provides a number of insightful and intriguing ways of understanding Arthurian texts.

• Introduction - Karen Cherewatuk and Kevin S Whetter'But here Geoffrey falls silent': Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie - Sian EchardMordred's Sons - Edward Donald KennedyDying in Uncle Arthur's Arms and at His Hands - Karen Cherewatuk'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and 'britned to noght': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil - Michael W. TwomeyLove and Death in Arthurian Romance - Kevin S WhetterDeath in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript - Thomas Howard CroftsThe Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur - Michael WentheMalory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain - Lisa RobesonLayde to the Colde Erthe: Death, Arthur's Knights, and Narrative Closure - Cory RushtonArthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above - Janina P TraxlerWoman as Agent of Death in Tennyson's Idylls of the King - James NobleDeath as 'Neglect of Duty' in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur - Julie Nelson CouchDeath and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In Parenthesis - Samantha J. RaynerRoll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur - Kevin J Harty