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A Companion to Arthurian Literature.
This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2011.
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| Colección: | Blackwell companions to literature and culture ;
58. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; Title page; Copyright page; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; The Question of Historicity; Chronicle, Romance, Fantasy; The Politics of Arthur in the Modern World; Remediations of Arthur; A Note on Spelling and Translations; Introduction: Theories and Debates; Part I: The Arthur of History; 1 The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons: An Archaeological Context for Arthur?; Gildas and the History of Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries; The Archaeology of Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries.
- Germanic SettlementTowns; The Celtic West; Tintagel; Cadbury Castle; Dinas Powys; Western and Northern England; Conclusion; 2 Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur; The Historia Brittonum; The Annales Cambriae; Genealogy; Hagiographies; Conclusion; 3 History and Myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae; The Historia as History; Manuscripts and Sources; The Arthurian Section of the Historia; The Myth of Arthur; 4 The Chronicle Tradition; Part II: Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend; 5 The Historical Context: Wales and England 800-1200.
- Britain at the Opening of the Ninth CenturyEngland and Wales in the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries; The Coming of the Normans; "Native" and Norman Cultures; The Poets and the Princes; 6 Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism; Arthur as Warrior-Hero; Arthur in Welsh Popular Tradition; Fantasy and Magic Naturalism; The Three Merlins; 7 The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall; Scottish Chronicles and Arthurian Tradition; Folk Tradition and the Figure of Arthur; The Arthur of Romance; Cornwall.
- Place Names, Personal Names, and the Oldest Strata of Arthurian LegendsConclusion; 8 Arthur and the Irish; 9 Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint; The Manuscript History; Welsh and French Traditions; Date and Provenance; Part III: Continental Arthurian Traditions; 10 The "Matter of Britain" on the Continent and the Legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain; France and Occitania; Italy; Spain and Portugal; 11 Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction; The Author and his Works; Chrétien and his Sources.
- Erec et Enide: The First Arthurian RomanceCligès: Carrying Romance from Britain to Byzantium and Beyond; Le Chevalier de la Charrette (Lancelot): The Queen's Lover; Yvain or the Knight of the Lion: Protecting the Fountain; Le Conte du Graal: Perceval's Education and the Grail; Chrétien's Legacy; 12 The Allure of Otherworlds: The Arthurian Romances in Germany; 13 Scandinavian Versions of Arthurian Romance; Trends in Scholarship; Arthur of the Norse; Saga and Romance: Form and Ideology; The Later Middle Ages; 14 The Grail and French Arthurian Romance; Chrétien de Troyes and Robert de Boron.