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Arthurian Literature XXIX (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Bart Besamusca, Christopher Michael Berard, Dorsey Armstrong, …
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The influence and significance of
the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter
and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century
Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modernArthur of
the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III's
abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of
Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge
of the French manuscript sources for Malory's first tale, in
particular the Suite du Merlin; and the central role played by
Cornwall in Malory's literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the
pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering
key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as
Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of
Durham;Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English
Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors:
Dorsey Armstrong, Christopher Berard, Bart Besamusca, P.J.C. Field,
Linda Gowans, Sjoerd Levelt, JulianM. Luxford, Ryan Naughton,
Jessica Quinlan, Joshua Byron Smith
The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed
narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to
consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed
books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of
vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about
changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the
corpus extant in manuscript copies? Did narrative texts that
already existed in manuscript form undergo significant
modifications when they began to be printed? How did this crucial
media development affect the nature of these narratives? Which
strategies did early printers develop to make their texts
commercially attractive? Which social classes were the target
audiences for their editions? Around half of the articles focus on
developments in the history of early printed narrative texts,
others discuss publication strategies. This book provides an
impetus for cross-linguistic research. It invites scholars from
various disciplines to get involved in an international
conversation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century narrative
literature.
First full-length study in English of the Middle Dutch
Lancelot-Compilation, of great significance for Arthurian studies.
The Book of Lancelot is a study of the highly intriguing Middle
Dutch Lancelot Compilation, a collection of ten Arthurian verse
romances, compiled around 1320. Although the compilation is one of
the most important Middle Dutch works, and has important
implications for Arthurian studies, it is not well-known outside
the Low Countries. This monograph, the first full-length English
study of the compilation, aims to bring it to a wider
audience,analysing the Middle Dutch work and comparing it to French
narrative cycles, Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, and Ulrich
Füetrer's Buch der Abenteuer. The book consists of five chapters.
The introductory chapter deals with the study of cyclicity, the
literary context of the Lancelot Compilation, and the manuscript
tradition. In the following three chapters the ten romances are
studied one by one. Each analysis consists of two parts:a
description of the compiler's source and a survey of his
interventions. In the fifth and last chapter the Lancelot
Compilation is characterized as a narrative cycle and compared with
French, English and German cycles. The monograph concludes with an
attempt to describe the essence of the compilation. BART BESAMUSCA
is Associate Professor in the Department of Dutch at Utrecht
University.
Essays demonstrating that Arthur belonged to the whole of Europe -
not just England. The European dimensions of Arthurian literature
form the focus of this special issue of Arthurian Literature,
derived from sessions held at the International Conference in
Utrecht (2005). It brings out in particular the supranational
coherence of the Arthurian genre, and the ways in which its motifs
appear throughout European literature. Questions discussed here
include the function of Perceval in a variety of Arthurian
romances, the character of Gauvain in the French, Dutch and English
traditions, the narrator in different versions of the Prose
Lancelot, and the concept of 'youth' in Scandinavian and Old French
romances. BART BESAMUSCA and FRANK BRANDSMA lecture at Utrecht
University. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, FRANK BRANDSMA, CORA
DIETL, SARAH GORDON, LINDA GOWANS, MARJOLEIN HOGENBIRK, SUSANNE
KRAMARZ-BEIN, NORRIS J. LACY, MARTINE MEUWESE, STEFANO MULA, JOSEPH
M. SULLIVAN,LORI J. WALTERS.
New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to
encompass European literatures other than French and English;
still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or
Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian
Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted
to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by
Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch
literature which has recently become accessible to an
English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a
fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain
quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the
Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein,
especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK
KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of
renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal
of the Walewein. KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research
Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies,
University of Oklahoma. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER,
WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD
PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART
VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS
The expression of cultural differences in medieval courtly
literature explored. Cultural differences in medieval European
literary practice are reflected in many different ways, as this
volume illustrates. The essays cover a whole range of courtly
topics, in particular questions of context, genre and poetic voice.
The five sections explore contexts for courtliness, especially the
position of the vernacular poet at or near the court; the ways in
which courtly values and political aspirations are reflected in the
work of medieval chronicle and romance writers; questions of
register, convention, gender, and narrative technique; problems of
literary production and reception, particularly the transmission of
courtly and quasi-courtly texts among widely differing medieval
audiences; and broader issues such as the clues to the courtly
mentality provided by peripheral narrative details, the blurring of
conventional courtly boundaries, and the perennial fascination of
tales with strong folklore or fabliau elements. Dr EVELYN MULLALLY
and Dr JOHN THOMPSON are Senior Lecturers at the Queen's University
of Belfast. Contributors: GEAROID MAC EOIN, NOLLAIG O MURA-LE,
RUPERT T. PICKENS, FRANCOISE LE SAUX, CATHERINE LEGLU, BARBARA N.
SARGENT-BAUR, AD PUTTER, MICHEL ZINK, DONALD MADDOX, JEANBLACKER,
SARA STURM-MADDOX, MICHELLE SZKIILNIK, THEA SUMMERFIELD, HELEN
COOPER JOHN SCATTERGOOD, JUNE HALL MCCASH, JOAN BRUMLIK, LESLIE C.
BROOKMAUREEN BOULTON, JESSICA COOKE, DIANE M. WRIGHT, G. KOOLEMANS
BEYNEN, LORI J. WALTERS, SYLVIA WRIGHT, FRANK BRANDSMA, CARTER
REVARD, A S G EDWARDS, HEATHER COLLIER, TERENCE SCULLY, CHRISTOPHER
KLEINHENZ, SARA I. JAMES, WILLIAM MACBAIN, SARA I. JAMES, MARY B.
SPEER, YASMINA FOEHR-JANSSENS, CAROL J. HARVEY, BART BESAMUSCA,
KEITH BUSBY
A survey of critical attention devoted to Arthurian matters. This
book offers the first comprehensive and analytical account of the
development of Arthurian scholarship from the eighteenth century,
or earlier, to the present day. The chapters, each written by an
expert in the area under discussion, present scholarly trends and
evaluate major contributions to the study of the numerous different
strands which make up the Arthurian material: origins, Grail
studies, editing and translation of Arthurian texts, medieval and
modern literatures (in English and European languages), art and
film. The result is an indispensable resource for students and a
valuable guide for anyone with a serious interest in the Arthurian
legend. Contributors:NORRIS LACY, TONY HUNT, KEITH BUSBY, JANE
TAYLOR, CHRISTOPHER SNYDER, RICHARD BARBER, SIAN ECHARD, GERALD
MORGAN, ALBRECHT CLASSEN, ROGER DALRYMPLE, BART BESAMUSCA, MARIANNE
E. KALINKE, BARBARA MILLER, CHRISTOPHER KLEINHENZ, MURIEL WHITAKER,
JEANNE FOX-FRIEDMAN, DANIEL NASTALI, KEVIN J. HARTY NORRIS J. LACY
is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at
Pennsylvania State University.
In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the
Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French
material (like Chretien's Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot),
but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book
provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the
research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a
crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence,
and the movement of texts and manuscripts (West to East) reflects
its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context,
the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands.
Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the
translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances
form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the
manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval
Arthurian material.
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