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New directions in Arthurian studies / edited by Alan Lupack.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Camelot 2000 (2000 : University of Rochester)
- Series:
- Arthurian studies 0261-9814 ; 51.
- Arthurian studies, 0261-9814 ; 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Arthurian romances--Adaptations--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Arthurian romances--Adaptations.
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- Arthur, King--In motion pictures.
- Arthur.
- Arthur, King.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 168 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2002.
- Summary:
- Eleven essays by leading Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting directions that Arthurian studies must take to remain vital. Other essays contain innovative approaches, overviews of specific areas of Arthurian studies, and suggestions for new ways to approach Arthurian material; they range over Malory, Latin Arthurian literature, Gawain and the Green Knight, Merlin in the twenty-first century, Tennyson's Idylls, Arthur in African-American culture, current trends in criticsm, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film.
- Contents:
- Arthurian research in a new century: prospects and projects / Norris J. Lacy
- Malory and his audience / P.J.C. Field
- The paradoxes of honour in Malory / Derek Brewer
- "Hic est Artur": reading Latin and reading Arthur / Siân Echard
- Judging Camelot: change in critical perspectives in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Robert J. Blanch and Julian N. Wasserman
- Tennyson's Guinevere and her Idylls of the king / David Staines
- Darkness over Camelot: enemies of the Arthurian dream / Raymond H. Thompson
- King Arthur and Black American popular culture / Barbara Tepa Lupack
- The Project of Arthurian studies: Quondam et Futurus / Bonnie Wheeler
- "Arthur? Arthur? Arthur?": where exactly is the cinematic Arthur to be found? / Kevin J. Harty
- Merlin in the twenty-first century / Peter H. Goodrich.
- Notes:
- Based on papers originally presented at the Camelot 2000 Conference held at the University of Rochester.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0859916421
- OCLC:
- 49375499
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