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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
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 324 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in mediaeval studies
SUNY series in medieval studies.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Arthurian romances -- History and criticism
Comparative literature -- 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
Arthurian romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Arthurian romances -- Adaptations
Arthurian romances
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives
Conduct of life in literature
Kings and rulers in literature
Medievalism
Middle Ages in literature
Social ethics in literature
Gesellschaft Motiv
Artusepik
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
Englisch.
Genre/Form Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Adaptations.
Form Electronic book
Author Shichtman, Martin B
Carley, James P
Lagorio, Valerie Marie, 1925-
ISBN 0585044767
9780585044767