Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Culture and the king : the social implications of the Arthurian legend : essays in honor of Valerie M. Lagorio / edited by Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [1994]
©1994

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in mediaeval studies
SUNY series in medieval studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Valerie M. Lagorio : a tribute / Mildred Leake Day -- Introduction : the social implications of the Arthurian legend / Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley -- Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : subtle and political / David Chamberlain -- Lévi-Strauss in Camelot : interrupted communication in Arthurian feudal fictions / Donald Maddox -- Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes / Armel Diverres -- The knight as reader of Arthurian romance / Elspeth Kennedy -- The stanzaic Morte Arthur : the adaptation of a French romance for an English audience / Edward Donald Kennedy -- Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian propaganda at the court of Frederick II / Donald L. Hoffman -- A grave event : Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's bones / James P. Carley.
The speaking knight : Sir Gawain and other animals / Felicity Riddy -- Politicizing the ineffable : the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's "Tale of the Sankgreal" / Martin B. Shichtman -- "The prowess of hands" : the psychology of alchemy in Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth" / Bonnie Wheeler -- How many roads to Camelot : the married knight in Malory / Maureen Fries -- Spenser for hire : Arthurian history as cultural capital in The faerie queene / Laurie A. Finke -- Arthur before and after the revolution : the Blome-Stansby edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains glory (1684) / David R. Carlson -- Reluctant redactor : William Dyce reads the legend / Debra N. Mancoff -- The snake in the woodpile : Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian prostitute / Rebecca Umland -- Feminism, homosexuality, and homophobia in The mists of Avalon / James Noble -- Camelot 3000 and the future of Arthur / Charles T. Wood.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Arthurian romances -- History and criticism.
Arthurian romances.
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Conduct of life in literature.
Conduct of life in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Middle Ages in literature.
Medievalism -- History.
Medievalism.
History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Shichtman, Martin B.
Carley, James P.
Lagorio, Valerie Marie, 1925-
Other Form: Print version: Culture and the king. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994 0791418634 (DLC) 93010552 (OCoLC)27974248
ISBN 0585044767 (electronic book)
9780585044767 (electronic book)
0791418634
0791418642