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Author : Alexander Smellie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000672895
Author : Roger Sherman Loomis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780486145525
Stimulating and masterly study examines the evolution of the great mass of fiction surrounding the Arthurian legend in Western literature — from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and the collection of Welsh tales known as The Mabinogion, to Chrétien de Troyes' Arthurian stories, the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and such English masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Le Morte d'Arthur. Painstakingly researched and brimming with scholarly insight, this highly readable and entertaining work will be a favorite with general audiences as well as scholars and students of the Arthurian legend.
Author : Edward Donald Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135367206
Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue; the way Arthur is depicted in 19th-century art and the Victorian view of manhood; and conceptions of King Arthur in 20th-century literature. Six of the essays, originally published in French and German, are translated into English especially for this book. Two essays have been substantially revised. An introduction offers a general discussion of the development of the legends in the countries of Europe. Works discussed include medieval and Renaissance chronicles (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, Scottish vernacular and Latin chronicles), medieval romances (the Lancelot en prose, the Mort Artu, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, and works of Chrétien de Troyes, Hartmann von Aue, and Sir Thomas Malory), Spenser's Faerie Queene, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and T.H. White's Once and Future King. A bibliography lists selected major secondary studies of King Arthur as well as major reference works.
Author : Christopher Baswell,William Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317656913
Originally published in 1988, this volume contains papers from, and commissioned after, "The Passing of Arthur", a conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in November 1986. No Arthurian story is experienced without some foreknowledge of its end, which the text acknowledges through a complex range of methods. This collection takes this as its point of origin, suggesting that all such narratives concern the passing of Arthur, even indirectly, so the chapters not only look at the death of Arthur but the passing on and development of the Arthurian literature. The figure of Arthur and the Round Table continues to fascinate contemporary readers. This interesting collection presents a wide range of Arthurian studies approaches representing some of the vast scholarship on the genre.
Author : W R J Barron
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786837417
This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own – stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of princes even today. Yet some would say the English were the historical Arthur’s bitterest enemies and usurpers of his heritage. The process by which Arthurian legends have become an important part of England’s cultural heritage is traced in this book. Previous studies have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances, which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism. This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English Arthurian legends and how they evolved. It focuses primarily upon the literary aspects of Arthurian legend, but it also makes some important political and social observations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708323861
King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that there was a Latin Arthurian tradition which extended beyond Geoffrey. This collection of essays will highlight different aspects of that tradition, allowing readers to see the well-known and the obscure as part of a larger, often coherent whole. These Latin-literate scholars were as interested as their vernacular counterparts in the origins and stories of Britain's greatest heroes, and they made their own significant contributions to his myth.
Author : Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110432466
The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.
Author : William Lewis Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Arthur, King
ISBN : OXFORD:N10724387
"...[T]race[s] . . . the origin and growth of King Arthur's historical and literary renown" --Preface.
Author : Richard W. Barber
Publisher : Ipswich [Eng.] : Boydell Press ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield, c[1974
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : UOM:39076001288021
Author : Jessie Laidlay Weston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0484032496
Excerpt from King Arthur and His Knights: A Survey of Arthurian Romance The. Evolution of Arthur as a national hero, indeed, is a very curious and striking example of the unconquerable vitality and power of impressing itself characteristic of the Celtic genius. We reject, and very reasonably, the tradition which represents the British King as carrying his arms triumphantly through France and Italy, and Van (pushing even the power of Rome; but what the historical Arthur did not do, the legendary Arthur assuredly achieved. Not only did the English people (representative of the Saxon, Danish, and Norman invaders of British soil) take him to their heart, and as they became welded into one folk accept him as the traditionary embodiment of the spirit of their land, but he took captive the imagin ation alike of France and of Italy. He is immer talised in French verse and in Italian architecture; Sicily claims to be his resting-place; and there is no European literature of any importance which does not contribute its quota to the great mass of Arthurian romance. Yet a comparatively small proportion only of this literature is in the English tongue. When the Arthurian legend was at the height of its popularity the dominant language was French, and it was in the form of French romance that the literary legend became popularised in this land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Mary Flowers Braswell,John Bugge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106008493196
Author : Derek Pearsall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470776773
This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal. Traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times. Covers art and films as well as the great literary works of Arthurian romance. Draws out the changing political, moral and emotional uses of the story. Explains the enduring appeal of the Arthurian legend. Written by an author with vast knowledge of medieval literature.
Author : Jessie L. Weston
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066119133
Jessie L. Weston in this book "The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac" shares her study on the Lancelot legend which is considered unconnected with the Arthurian legends. She gives a vivid explanation of some interesting facts that are worth knowing about the legends. Are you interested in the story of Sir Lancelot Du Lac and other associated legends?
Author : Armel Hugh Diverres,Cedric Edward Pickford
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780859911320
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 study of Arthurian allusions in the Black Book of Carmarthen to examinations of the Spanish and French romances of the 15th century. There are five papers on the romances of Chretien de Troyes, including pieces by Tony Hunt, Kenneth Varty and Charles Foulon, two on Welsh and German romances associated with Chretien's work, while other studies are on the Breton lais and on the English romances. In all, this is a wide-ranging and valuable collection, and a welcome addition to the series.
Author : Marianne E. Kalinke
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783164554
The book is a comprehensive survey of medieval and early modern Arthurian literature in the Scandinavian countries The book analyses the transmission of a foreign courtly literature in the non-courtly culture of Iceland The book surveys the acculturation of foreign narrative and style to indigenous literary forms in the North
