Modern retellings of chivalric texts / edited by Gloria Allaire.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allaire, Gloria, 1954-

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