Title Modern retellings of chivalric texts / edited by Gloria Allaire

Published Aldershot [England] ; Brookfield [Vt.], USA : Ashgate, [1999] ©1999

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Description viii, 176 pages ; 24 cm Contents 1. Desire and mythic intertext: refigurations of Tristan in Moderato cantabile / Deborah Lesko Baker -- 2. The Lady of Shalott: Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny and Pynchon / Kathleen Coyne Kelly -- 3. Stomping on the shoulders of giants: Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex / Lee Tobin McClain -- 4. The unholy grail: recasting the Grail myth for an unbelieving age / MaryLynn Saul -- 5. Transforming the proud king transformed: Robert of Sicily / Stephen D. Powell -- 6. The modernist Orlando: Virginia Woolf's refashioning of Ariosto's Orlando furioso / Pauline Scott -- 7. Re-visible Spenser: the quest in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man / Christine Herold -- 8. The reformulation of Orlando in Giuseppe Bonaviri's Novelle saracene / Barbara De Marco -- 9. From medieval realism to modern fantasy: Guerrino Meschino through the centuries / Gloria Allaire -- 10. Coming full circle: romance as romanzo in Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo / Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Arthurian romances -- Adaptations. Chivalry in literature. Knights and knighthood in literature. Arthurian romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism. Literature, Medieval -- Adaptations -- History and criticism. Literature, Modern -- Medieval influences. Medievalism. Romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism. Romances -- Adaptations. Genre/Form Adaptations. Author Allaire, Gloria, 1954- LC no. 98022085 ISBN 1840146125

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