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Title:

Culture and the king : the social implications of the Arthurian legend : essays in honor of Valerie M. Lagorio / edited by Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

vi, 324 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
Arthurian romances--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Literature, Comparative--Themes, motives
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Kings and rulers in literature.
Conduct of life in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Middle Ages in literature
Medievalism--History.
Cycle d'Arthur--Histoire et critique.
Cycle d'Arthur--Histoire et critique.--Histoire et critique.

Other Authors:

Shichtman, Martin B.
Carley, James P.
Lagorio, Valerie Marie, 1925-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Valerie M. Lagorio : a tribute / Mildred Leake Day -- Introduction : the social implications of the Arthurian legend / Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley -- Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : subtle and political / David Chamberlain -- Lévi-Strauss in Camelot : interrupted communication in Arthurian feudal fictions / Donald Maddox -- Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes / Armel Diverres -- The knight as reader of Arthurian romance / Elspeth Kennedy -- The stanzaic Morte Arthur : the adaptation of a French romance for an English audience / Edward Donald Kennedy -- Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian propaganda at the court of Frederick II / Donald L. Hoffman -- A grave event : Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's bones / James P. Carley.
The speaking knight : Sir Gawain and other animals / Felicity Riddy -- Politicizing the ineffable : the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's "Tale of the Sankgreal" / Martin B. Shichtman -- "The prowess of hands" : the psychology of alchemy in Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth" / Bonnie Wheeler -- How many roads to Camelot : the married knight in Malory / Maureen Fries -- Spenser for hire : Arthurian history as cultural capital in The faerie queene / Laurie A. Finke -- Arthur before and after the revolution : the Blome-Stansby edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains glory (1684) / David R. Carlson -- Reluctant redactor : William Dyce reads the legend / Debra N. Mancoff -- The snake in the woodpile : Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian prostitute / Rebecca Umland -- Feminism, homosexuality, and homophobia in The mists of Avalon / James Noble -- Camelot 3000 and the future of Arthur / Charles T. Wood.

Series:

SUNY series in mediaeval studies

ISBN:

9780791418635 (CH : Acid-free)
0791418634 (CH : Acid-free)
9780791418642 (PB : Acid-free)
0791418642 (PB : Acid-free)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)27974248

LCCN:

93010552

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)