The Passing of Arthur : new essays in Arthurian tradition
Title:
The Passing of Arthur : new essays in Arthurian tradition
Author:
Baswell, Christopher.
Publication Information:
New York : Garland Pub., 1988.
Physical Description:
xix, 316 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
General Note:
Papers originally presented at 8th Annual Barnard College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Barnard College, Nov. 15, 1986.
Language:
English
Contents:
Life in La mort le roi Artu / Charles Méla -- The king's sin : the origins of the David-Arthur parallel / M. Victoria Guerin -- Desire, meaning, and the female reader : the problem in Chrétien's Charrete / Roberta L. Krueger -- Aspects of Arthur's death in Medieval illumination / M. Alison Stones -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : the passing of judgment / Marie Borroff -- Leaving Morgan aside : women, history, and revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Sheila Fisher -- The "syngne of surfet" and the surfeit of signs in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / R. Allen Shoaf -- The passing of Arthur in Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare : the avoidance of closure / A. Kent Hieatt.
Arthur, Argante, and the ideal vision : an exercise in speculation and parody / Judith Anderson -- "Beauties chace" : Arthur and women in The faerie queene / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- Tennyson and the passing of Arthur / John D. Rosenberg -- Ideological battleground : Tennyson, Morris, and the pastness of the past / Jonathan Freedman -- Victorian spellbinders : Arthurian women and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle / Carole Silver -- The last idyll : dozing in Avalon / William E. Fredeman.
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ISBN:
9780824080976
Format :
Book
