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Modern retellings of chivalric texts / edited by Gloria Allaire.
LIBRA PN682.C53 M63 1999
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adaptations.
- Literature, Medieval--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Arthurian romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Arthurian romances--Adaptations.
- Romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Romances.
- Literature, Modern--Medieval influences.
- Literature, Modern.
- Knights and knighthood in literature.
- Chivalry in literature.
- Medievalism.
- Romances--Adaptations.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 176 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, [1999]
- Contents:
- 1 Desire and mythic intertext: refigurations of Tristan in Moderato cantabile / Deborah Lesko Baker 11
- 2 The Lady of Shalott: Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny and Pynchon / Kathleen Coyne Kelly 25
- 3 Stomping on the shoulders of giants: Thomas Berger's / Arthur Rex, Lee Tobin McClain 39
- 4 The unholy grail: recasting the Grail myth for an unbelieving age / MaryLynn Saul 51
- 5 Transforming the proud king transformed: Robert of Sicily / Stephen D. Powell 67
- 6 The modernist Orlando: Virginia Woolf's refashioning of Ariosto's Orlando furioso / Pauline Scott 83
- 7 Re-visible Spenser: the quest in Ralph Ellison's / Invisible Man, Christine Herold 99
- 8 The reformulation of Orlando in Giuseppe Bonaviri's Novelle saracene / Barbara De Marco 117
- 9 From medieval realism to modern fantasy: Guerrino Meschino through the centuries / Gloria Allaire 133
- 10 Coming full circle: romance as romanzo in Elsa Morante's / L'isola di Arturo, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1840146125
- OCLC:
- 39147822
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