Arthurian Legend
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Collective Memory
Death
Dying
English Tradition
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Ideological Tensions
Kingdom
Middle Ages
Myth
Tragic End
Product details
- ISBN 9781843842088
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.
It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in Englandand America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory's Morte Darthur; Tennyson's Idylls, Pyle's retelling of the myth for American children, David Jones, T.H. White, Donald Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk, Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, MichaelWenthe, Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble, Julie Nelson Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University. THOMAS H. CROFTS is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he also co-directs the Minor in Classical and Medieval Studies.
