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Alan Lupack, "The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend"

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays offer a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from their origins in medieval literature to their adaptation in modern literature, arts, film, and popular culture. It also demonstrates the tremendous continuity of the legends by examining the ways that they have been reinterpreted over the years. The indispensable reference on the subject, it also contains encyclopedic entries, bibliographies, and a comprehensive index. The extensive chapter-by-chapter bibliographies, which are subdivided by topic, augment the general bibliography of Arthurian resources.

Comprehensive in its analysis and hypertextual in its approach, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is an essential reference book for Arthurian scholars, medievalists, and for those interested in cultural studies of myth and legend.

Contents

& 8220;Introduction

Bibliography of Basic Resources for the Study of the Arthurian Legends

General Sources

Journals

Arthurian Names

Bibliographies

Overviews and Studies of Particular Countries, Periods, or Genres

Guides to Major Arthurian Texts

Arthurian Characters and Symbols

Arthurian Art

Arthurian Music

Arthurian Sites

Anthologies

1 Early Accounts of Arthur, Chronicles, and Historical Literature

Early References to Arthur

Arthur in Welsh Literature

Saints' Lives

Geoffrey of Monmouth and his Influence

Other Latin Chronicles

The Continuing Chronicle Tradition in England and Scotland

Arthur's Death and Survival

Historical Verse

Historical Drama

Historical Novels

Bibliography

2 The Romance Tradition

Chrétien de Troyes and the Beginnings of the Romance Tradition

The Influence of Chrétien de Troyes

Lancelot and Guinevere

Romances with Non-traditional Heroes

Lanval and Launfal

Chastity Tests

Ballads

Bibliography

3 Malory, His Influence, and the Continuing Romance Tradition

Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur

From Malory to Tennyson

Lady of Shalott / Elaine of Astolat

Other Victorian Poets

Parodies and Criticisms of Tennyson

Arthurian Youth Groups and their Influence

Illustrating Malory and Tennyson

The Continuing Romance Tradition in Poetry

The Continuing Romance Tradition in Drama, Music, and Film

The Continuing Romance Tradition in Fiction

Bibliography

4 The Holy Grail

Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval and its Continuations and Translations

Robert de Boron and the Prose Adaptations of his Work

Perlesvaus

Peredur and Sir Perceval of Galles

Tyolet and Related Tales

Wolfram von Eschenbach and his Influence

The Grail in the Vulgate (or Lancelot-Grail) and the Post-Vulgate Cycles and Henry Lovelich's Translation

Joseph of Arimathea

The Grail from Malory to Victorian England

American Interpretations of the Grail

Jessie Weston and T. S. Eliot

Twentieth-Century British Interpretations of the Grail

The Grail in Popular Culture

Bibliography

5 Gawain

Gawain Romances Other than English

English Gawain Romances

Reworkings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Loathly Lady

The Fair Unknown

Gawain and his Family in Later Literature

Bibliography

6 Merlin

The Origins of Merlin

Prophecies of Merlin

Merlin in Medieval Romance

Tom Thumb

Merlin in Drama

Merlin in Modern Poetry

Merlin in Modern Fiction

Merlin in Popular Culture

Bibliography

7 Tristan and Isolt

Tristan in Welsh Literature

The Common and Courtly Versions of the Tristan Story

The Prose Tristan and its Influence

Palamedes

Tristan and Isolt in the Victorian Age

Tristan Plays

The Tristan Legend in Twentieth-Century Verse

Tristan and Isolt in Fiction

Tristan and Isolt in Film

Bibliography

Afterword

Arthurian People, Places, and Things

Index& 8221;

Tags: Literature, LiteraryCriticism, KingArthur, Mythology

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