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Arthurian Literature XXII (Hardcover)
Keith Busby, Roger Dalrymple; Contributions by Annette Voelfing, Ben Ramm, Fanni Bogdanow, …
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Selection of the latest research in Arthurian studies. The essays
in this volume present the most recent fruits of Arthurian
scholarship, on texts from Perlesvaus to Albrecht's Jüngerer
Titurel and the Prose BrutChronicle, together with a detailed
examination of the role of Micheau Gonnot's Arthuriad in the
evolution of Arthurian romance. The volume also includes an
investigation of Arthurian prophecy and the deposition of Richard
II. It is completed with an encyclopaedic treatment of Arthurian
literature, art and film produced between 1999 and 2004, acting as
a continuing update to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia.
Contributors: BEN RAMM, FANNI BOGDANOW, ANNETTE VOLFING, HELEN
FULTON, JULIA MARVIN, RAYMOND H. THOMPSON, NORRIS J. LACY
Why should a supposedly Biblical relic lay down its literary roots
in medieval French literature? The Holy Grail made its first
literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet,
Chretien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and
audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework
based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural
theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the
mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over
the centuries, arguing that the Grail should be read as a symptom
of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation.
Focusing on two thirteenth-century Arthurian prose romances, La
Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus, and drawing extensively on
the wider field of Old French Grail literature including the works
of Chretien and Robert de Boron, the book examines the personal,
social and textual effects produced by encounters with the Grail in
order to suggestthat the Grail itself is instrumental not only in
creating but also in disturbing, the discursive, psychic and
cultural bonds that are represented in this complex and captivating
literary tradition. BEN RAMM is ResearchFellow in French, St.
Catharine's College, Cambridge.
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