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Aspects of Malory
Av Toshiyuki Takamiya, Derek S Brewer
Inbunden, 1981
1440 kr
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This volume of essays is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory, an author who has always been enjoyed by the common reader, but is still sometimes underestimated by the critics. Despite an increasing number of articles onMalory, there is a need for a general survey of recent research, which …
Alliterative Morte Arthure
A Reassessment of the Poem
Inbunden, 1981
1440 kr
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Essays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem.The present volume grew from a nucleus of four papers given at the Twelfth International Arthurian Conference at Regensburg in 1971 on the alliterative Morte Arthure, increasingly recognised as one of the great masterpiecesof …
Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature
Inbunden, 1985
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Dr Morris examines how the legend grew through the retelling of what medieval writers believed was the story of an historical figure, based not on some lost Welsh biography, but on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings ofBritain, the `authorised' version of Arthur's career. She looks at his …
Arthurian Bibliography II
Subject Index
Av Cedric Edward Pickford, R. W. Last m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1235 kr
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Full indexes by topic, keyword and individual work\author form a complete subject-index, based on the indexes in source bibliographies. This is a complete bibliography of Arthurian literature to 1978, the result of five years' work by Professor Cedric Pickford and Dr Rex Last of the University of …
Legend of Arthur in the Middle Ages Studies presented to A H Diverres
Av P. B. Grout, R. A. Lodge m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1440 kr
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This volume, a festschrift for Professor A,H. Diverres, has been included in the Arthurian Studies series because it contains highly important new work on the medieval aspects of Arthurian legend, ranging from Rachel Bromwich's essay on the Celtic elements in Arthurian romance and A.O.H Jarman's …
Romance of Yder
Av Alison Adams
Inbunden, 1983
1516 kr
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The Romance of Ydersurvives in a unique manuscript in Cambridge University Library, and has only once been edited; no translation survives. Yet it is a highly interesting work, reflecting a tradition which reaches back to the beginnings of Arthurian romance in the early 12th century; it is linked …
Return of King Arthur British and American Arthurian Literature since 1800
Av Beverly Taylor, Elisabeth Brewer m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1968 kr
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The revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works …
Arthur's Kingdom of Adventure
The World of Malory's Morte Darthur
Inbunden, 1984
1440 kr
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The setting of medieval Arthurian romance, as typified by Malory's Morte Darthur, plays an important part in the creation of the atmosphere of the stories, and in intensifying the drama of the action. Professor Whitaker looks at the Arthurianworld which Malory inherited form his sources and to …
Le Roman de Tristan en prose I
Inbunden, 1985
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`The publication of this book is an event of some importance in Arthurian studies. The Prose Tristanwas one of the most widely read works in medieval France; written between 1215 and 1235, it continued to be copied until the end of the Middle Ages and its popularity lasted another hundred years in …
Le Roman de Tristan en prose II
Inbunden, 1985
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Renée Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristanis the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only accessible in the form ofa few fragments which had been edited and a summary of the romance made by E. …
Le Roman de Tristan en prose III
Inbunden, 1985
1950 kr
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Renee Curtis's three-volume critical edition of the Prose Tristan is the only edition of this very important medieval work ever published; until the first volume appeared in 1963, the work was only accessible in the form of a fewfragments which had been edited and a summary of the romance made by …
Changing Face of Arthurian Romance
Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in memory of Cedric E. Pickford
Av Alison Adams, Armel H. Diverres m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
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These essays on Arthurian prose romances, published as a tribute to Cedric E. Pickford, reflect their development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the death of Chrétien de Troyes tothe end of the medieval period in England. Topics include the question …
Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances and Lyric Poetry of Medieval France
Av Peter V. Davies, Angus J Kennedy
Inbunden, 1987
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The essays in this volume, a Festschrift for Professor Kenneth Varty, are centred on the relatively unexplored theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric. The Arthurian studies range over verse (Béroul, Chrétien, Jean Renart, the Roman de Silence) and prose …
Cei and the Arthurian Legend
Av Linda Gowans
Inbunden, 1988
1440 kr
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`No Arthurian critic will be able to ignore this book which gathers together so much diverse material and skilfully brings out unexpected links between versions widely separated in time and country of origin. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW`No Arthurian critic will be able to ignore this book which gathers …
Love's Masks
Identity, Intertextuality and Meaning in the Old French Tristan Poems
Inbunden, 1989
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`Love's Masks raises provocative questions about the Old French Tristan poems and their context and provides some suggestive answers.' Donald Hoffman, QUONDAM ET FUTURUS, Vol. I, No 1 Spring 1991 `-a highly readable, useful overview of theTristan corpus, an excellent introduction for students and a …
Layamon's Brut
The Poem and its Sources
Inbunden, 1989
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A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to …
Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Tristan Legend
Papers from an Anglo- North American Symposium
Av Roy Wisbey, Adrian Stevens m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1516 kr
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This volume comprises selected papers from a Tristan symposium held at the Institute of Germanic Studies in London. The symposium was conceived by the organizers as an experiment in transatlantic dialogue and the papers representthe views of scholars from a variety of North American and British …
Camelot Regained
The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson 1800-1849
Inbunden, 1990
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`Roger Simpson['s] finds are crisp, detailed, and convincing.' MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW The revival of interest in Arthurian literature in the early part of the 19th century has been largely unremarked until now. Roger Simpson's wide-ranging study of this period, in which he traces the dominant forms …
Introduction to Malory
Häftad, 1988
385 kr
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This introduction to Morte Darthuroutlines the book's basic character, followed by a study of the key concepts of love, loyalty, sin and shame. Malory's approach to his material is discussed, as are his sources, and his individual contribution; finally, Maloryand his book are placed in their …
Arthurian Poets
Charles Williams
Av David Llewellyn Dodds, David Llewellyn Dodds
Inbunden, 1991
1516 kr
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`I believe this volume will give to scholars of Williams expanded vistas from which to view his work, and to the general reader glimpses of Camelot'. MYTHPRINTIncludes Taliessin through Logres and The Regionof the Summer Stars - complex and haunting works which constitute the major imaginative …
Chrétien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages
Papers from an International Symposium
Inbunden, 1993
1968 kr
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Studies showing the influence of the French Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes on German medieval literature.The pre-eminent role of Chrétien de Troyes in the formation of Arthurian romance is reflected in the swift and brilliant response of German courtly poets to his works. Within a few …
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sources and Analogues
Av Elisabeth Brewer, Elisabeth Brewer
Häftad, 1973
344 kr
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This anthology of medieval writing provides a context for a deeper understanding of the Gawain-poet's originality and skill.The intertextuality of this brilliant poem can be more fully understood through Elisabeth Brewer's presentation of modern English versions of themes familiar from Gawain and …
Cligés
Av Chrétien de Troyes, Stewart Gregory m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1968 kr
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Fully annotated edition, in French, of late 12c Arthurian romance.Cligés is generally thought to be the second of Chrétien's Arthurian romances, probably written between 1185-87. This critical edition of Cligésis the first since Wendelin Foerster's in (1884) to take account of allthe manuscripts. …
T.H. White's The Once and Future King
Inbunden, 1993
1440 kr
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A critical study of T.H. White's classic Arthurian tetralogy.The Once and Future King defies classification. Is it for children, or for adults? Is it fantasy or a psychological novel? In its great range, it encompasses poetry and farce, comedy and tragedy -and sudden flights of schoolboy humour. …
Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut
Av Francoise Le Saux, Francoise H M Le Saux
Inbunden, 1994
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Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of Layamon's Brut is faced: To what extent is the archaic feel of the Brut part of a deliberate …
Chivalry in Twelfth Century Germany
The Works of Hartmann von Aue
Av W.H. Jackson
Inbunden, 1995
1516 kr
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The first book in English to cover the whole production of Hartmann von Aue (fl.1180-1203), a figure of paramount importance in the history of medieval German literature... His book is refreshing...and full of stimulating ideas. MEDIUM AEVUMFirst full-scale exploration of knighthood and chivalric …
Companion to the Gawain-Poet
Av Derek S Brewer, Jonathan Gibson
Inbunden, 1997
1968 kr
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Essays intended as a companion to a reading of the works of the Gawain poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and PatienceThe essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Cleanness and Patience, providing both …
Two Versions of Malory's Morte Darthur
Multiple Negation and the Editing of the Text
Av Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Inbunden, 1995
1440 kr
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Analysis of the relationship between the Winchester manuscript and Caxton's edition. Detailed linguistic analysis of the two versions of the Morte Darthur, charting important changes in the development of the English language.Malory's Morte Darthursurvives in two versions: the Winchester …
Reconstructing Camelot
French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition
Inbunden, 1995
1440 kr
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Study exploring the treatment of the Arthurian legends by the French Romantic movement.French Romanticism was a widespread movement, as apparent in the works of historians and scholars as in the works of creative writers. One of its principal characteristics was the cult of the middle ages, and …
Malory's Book of Arms
The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur
Av Andrew Lynch
Inbunden, 1997
1440 kr
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An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's Morte Darthur.This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations -to do …
