Dorsey Armstrong – författare

In his nearly half a century in the English Department of Purdue University, Shaun Hughes has had an incalculable impact on his students and colleagues, and this volume acknowledges the debt that generations of scholars in medieval studies owe to him. It highlights Dr. Hughes’s decades of research in a variety of fields: Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, Old Norse language and literature, and Tolkien.

The editors of this volume use its title to honor Bonnie Wheeler for her many scholarly achievements and to celebrate her wide-ranging contributions to medieval studies in the United States. There are sections on Old and Middle English Literature, Arthuriana Then and Now, Joan of Arc Then and Now, Nuns and Spirituality, and Royal Women. As the editors note in the introduction, the volume "confirms Bonnie's commitment to the multidisciplinary study of the Middle Ages" and affirms her conviction "that the medieval and the modern are best viewed not as 'the past' and 'the present' but as interpenetrative categories."

The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant and foreign about the Middle Ages. This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance that the book has had on the transference of this mirth to audiences. This volume also celebrates the scholarship of Thomas H. Ohlgren, a medievalist whose work encompasses a number of different areas, but at its center lives the power of the tale and its ability to create a lasting impression on readers, both medieval and modern.

Essays on teaching medieval Arthurian literature and modern adaptationsFrom the Middle Ages to the present, legends of King Arthur and his court have prompted readers to contemplate leadership and community, love and loyalty, the spiritual realm, and more, and the tales and their various adaptations continue to invite reflections on the current moment.Moving from early works by Geoffrey of Monmouth and Thomas Malory to later interpretations by Tennyson, Tolkien, and others, the essays in this volume explore the depth of the Arthurian tradition. They consider its breadth in diverse languages and forms, including Icelandic sagas, Japanese novels, and American hip-hop. Classroom approaches include discussion of disability, race, and gender theories; recommendations for exploring digital technologies; models for creative projects; and further engaging ideas.This volume contains discussion of Arthurian literature in Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Scandinavian, Spanish, Welsh, and Yiddish language traditions, featuring works including Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum; Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival; Saga af Tristram ok Ísodd; Möttuls saga; Skikkjurímur; the Tavola Ritonda; Paulino Pieri's Storia di Merlino; Viduvilt; Gabein; Melekh Artus; The Awntyrs off Arthur; the Alliterative Morte Arthure; the Stanzaic Morte Arthur; Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur; Amadís de Gaula; the Tristan poems of Béroul, Thomas of Britain, and Gottfried von Strassburg; "Merlin's Prophecy"; Peredur; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Sir Perceval of Galles; Sir Gowther; Marie de France's "Lanval"; the French Vulgate Cycle; and Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval, Story of the Grail, Lancelot, and Yvain.Later versions and other works discussed include Shakespeare's King Lear, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, Tolkien's "The Fall of Arthur," T. H. White's The Once and Future King, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, Walker Percy's Lancelot, Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, Natsume Sōseki's Kairo-kō, Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, Infocom's computer game Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake's song "Holy Grail," and Kid Ink's song "Holy Grail."