Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) [Hardcover]

Debra N. Mancoff (Editor)

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• Hardcover: 307 pages
• Publisher: Garland (May 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815300603
• ISBN-13: 978-0815300601
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars A good mix of Arthurian scholarship., July 18, 2007

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This review is from: Arthurian Revival: Essays on Form, Tradition, and Transformation (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) (Hardcover)

This is a very nice collection that looks at representations of the Matter of Britain from the nineteenth through the late twentieth centuries. Here are the contents:

Introduction / Debra N. Mancoff

Skirmishes at the periphery : Edward Howard, Eglinton, and aristocratic chivalry in Metropolitan magazine / Linda K. Hughes

Allegory and comedy in Bulwer-Lytton's King Arthur / Mark Cumming

Teasing the king / John R. Reed

William Morris : Arthurian innovator / Rebecca Cochran

"The true and the false" : Tennyson's Idylls of the king and the visual arts / Christine Poulson

Sir Noel Paton and the grail quest : The Arthurian mythos as Christian art / Richard A. Schindler

Art's moral mission : reading G.F. Watts's Sir Galahad / Marilynn Lincoln Board

American Arthurian authors : a declaration of independence / Alan Lupack

From romance to ritual : Wolfram, Arthur, and Wagner's Parsifal / Edward R. Haymes

Toward the condition of (absolute) music : Edward A. Macdowell and the Arthurian twilight / Joe K. Law

Rutland Boughton's Arthurian cycle / Michael Hurd

The first and last love : Morgan le Fay and Arthur / Raymond H. Thompson

The broken quest : the "Perceval" romances of Chretien de Troyes and Eric Rohmer / Bruce A. Beatie

Decapitation and deconstruction : the body of the hero in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac / Julie F. Codell

Whom does the grail serve? Wagner, Spielberg, and the issues of Jewish appropriation / Martin B. Shichtman