4.0 out of 5 stars
A good mix of Arthurian scholarship., July 18, 2007
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
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