| Description |
lxxvii, 344 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Arthurian characters and themes ; vol. 3 |
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1499 |
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Arthurian characters and themes ; vol. 3
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Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1499
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| Contents |
Series Editor's Preface / Norris J. Lacy -- Foreword: Seeking Guinevere / Sharan Newman -- Introduction / Thelma S. Fenster -- Love, Honor, and the Exchange of Women in Yvain: Some Remarks on the Female Reader / Roberta L. Krueger -- Rewriting Men's Stories: Enide's Disruptive Mouths / E. Jane Burns -- "Ez ist ir g'artet von mir": Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Female Heroes, Heroines, and Counter-Heroes: Images of Women in Arthurian Tradition / Maureen Fries -- Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History, and Revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Sheila Fisher -- Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory / Geraldine Heng -- "Le donne antiche e'cavalieri": Women in the Italian Arthurian Tradition / Regina Psaki -- Fairy Godmothers and Fairy Lovers / Laurence Harf-Lancner -- From the Lake to the Fountain: Lancelot and the Fairy Lover / Anne Berthelot |
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Nymue, The Chief Lady of the Lake in Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Sue Ellen Holbrook -- Arthur, Argante, and the Ideal Vision: An Exercise in Speculation and Parody / Judith H. Anderson -- Iseult of Brittany: A New Interpretation of Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult / Barbara Fass Leavy -- In Defense of Guenevere / Carole Silver -- Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographic Illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the King / Joanne Lukitsh -- The Woman's Eye: Four Modern Arthurian Illustrators / Muriel Whitaker -- Looking at Elaine: Keats, Tennyson, and the Directions of the Poetic Gaze / Constance W. Hassett and James Richardson -- The Figure of Guenevere in Modern Drama and Fiction / Elisabeth Brewer -- Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Subtexts: Toward a Theory of Lesbian Narrative Space in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon / Marilyn R. Farwell -- The First and Last Love: Morgan le Fay and Arthur / Raymond H. Thompson |
| Summary |
Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, moderncritics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the material of the Arthurian story. All the essays concentrate interpretation on a female creator and the work |
| Analysis |
Literature Special subjects Women |
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Literature Special subjects Women |
| Notes |
"Previously published as vol. 1499 in the Garland reference library of the humanities"--t.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Arthurian romances -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- Medieval period, 1066-1485 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056740 -- Sources.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012007
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| Author |
Fenster, Thelma S.
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| LC no. |
95052563 |
| ISBN |
0415928893 (paperback) |
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0815306237 (alk. paper) |
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