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Author | : Muriel Whitaker |
Publisher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780859914864 |
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"This ambitious book manages to cover the entire Arthurian tradition in art from the twelfth century through the twentieth, in media ranging from saltcellars to stained glass. Whitaker achieves this remarkable feat by remaining sensitive to the different uses that various localities and periods made of the Arthurian motif - So learned - and so fascinating." SPECULUM This is a study of works of art inspired by legends of King Arthur and his knights and produced over a period of nine centuries in western Europe, and latterly the United States and Canada. It covers illuminated manuscripts, printed books, sculpture, pavements, paintings, drawings, embroideries, tapestries, stained glass, objéts d'art, furniture, clothing, et al.. Muriel Whitaker's specialised knowledge of Arthurian texts from the middle ages to the present offers a rewarding perspective, explaining the social, political, religious and aesthetic conditions which influenced the artistic representations of the Arthurian legends in various historical periods, notably the Gothic middle ages, the Renaissance, the nineteenth century, and the present day. The late MURIEL WHITAKER was former Professor of English at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Author | : Takashi Suzuki |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780859913805 |
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Essays on Arthurian themes, on Beowulf, Chaucer and Shakespeare, and textual studies of Gower and others.
Author | : Alan Lupack |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859916301 |
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King Arthur in America analyzes the tremendous appeal of the Arthurian legends in America by examining the ways that Americans have found to democratize the Matter of Britain and to incorporate aspects of it not only into America's own mythologies but also into literature, film, social history, and popular culture.
Author | : Sir John Rhys |
Publisher | : Oxford Clarendon Press 1891. |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Laurie Finke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813027333 |
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"The few full-length studies of the Morte D'Arthur and other Arthurian texts published in the past 15 years have rarely reached and sustained the level of theoretical and interpretive sophistication found here. King Arthur and the Myth of History ought to have quite an impact on Arthurian studies, in part because Finke and Shichtman take medieval Arthurian literature--particularly what passes for history and chronicle--very seriously, on its own terms, in its different cultural contexts."--Kathleen Kelly, Northeastern University King Arthur and the Myth of History considers why, in the 12th century, tales of a 6th-century British king who achieved immortality in an apparently hopeless struggle to repel Saxon invaders, suddenly emerged full blown, virtually from nowhere. Further, why did this figure from the margins of the Norman empire suddenly become an important subject of historical writing at the center of that empire, and why has he since continued to be an enduring cultural icon? Laurie Finke and Martin Shichtman contend that Arthur has been employed by historians as a potent but empty symbol to legitimize institutional political ambitions during times of social stress. The study focuses on three periods of cultural crisis: the Norman colonization of England in the 11th and 12th centuries, the Warsof the Roses in the 15th century, and the rise and resurgence of fascism in 20th-century Europe. It examines four English chronicles of the Norman period--those of William of Malmesbury, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and Layamon. Other chapters investigate John Hardyng's Chronicle and Malory's Morte D'Arthur, both produced during the tumult of the Wars of the Roses. Finally, it considers more contemporary texts that offer the history of Adolf Hitler's acquisition of the Holy Grail: Jean-Michel Angebert's The Occult and the Third Reich: The Mystical Origins of Nazism and the Search for the Holy Grail and Trevor Ravenscroft's Spear of Destiny. Finke and Shichtman argue that these texts reveal tensions between the claims that history makes about objectivity or referentiality and particular social, political, and ideological agendas. They demonstrate that at historical moments of great stress, the turn to antiquarianism, in an effort to bypass traumas of the recent past in favor of archaic origins, offers a unique opportunity for the literary and cultural theorists to investigate the aims and uses of history itself. Laurie A. Finke is chair of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Kenyon College. Martin B. Shichtman is professor of English at Eastern Michigan University.
Author | : Marianne E. Kalinke |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2015-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783164557 |
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The book is a comprehensive survey of medieval and early modern Arthurian literature in the Scandinavian countries The book analyses the transmission of a foreign courtly literature in the non-courtly culture of Iceland The book surveys the acculturation of foreign narrative and style to indigenous literary forms in the North
Author | : Alan Lupack |
Publisher | : Oxford Quick Reference |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2007-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend offers a comprehensive survey of the Arthurian legends in all their manifestations, from the earliest medieval texts to their appearances in contemporary culture. Essential reading for Arthurian scholars, medievalists, and for those interested in myth and legend.
Author | : Alan Lupack |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Arthurian romances |
ISBN | : 9780815334835 |
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First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : John Rhys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan Lupack |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0859916421 |
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Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture. 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 criticism, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film. Contributors: ROBERT BLANCH, DEREK BREWER, P.J.C. FIELD, SIAN ECHARD, PETER GOODRICH, KEVIN HARTY, NORRIS J. LACY, BARBARATEPA LUPACK, DAVID STAINES, RAYMOND THOMPSON, JULIAN WASSERMAN, BONNIE WHEELER.