A Companion to Arthurian Literature

by Fulton, Helen

• ISBN13: 9780470672372
• ISBN10: 0470672374
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to contemporary culture. Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the most recent works Features an impressive range of well-known international contributors Examines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canon, including film and computer games Underscores an understanding of Arthurian literature as fundamental to western literary tradition

Author Biography

Helen Fulton is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She has published extensively on medieval Welsh and English literatures and has related interests in language and critical theory, particularly narrative and discourse. Other books which she has edited include Medieval Celtic Literature and Society (2005) and Urban Culture in Medieval Wales (2011).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Theories and Debates	p. 1
The Arthur of History	p. 13
The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons: An Archaeological Context for Arthur?	p. 15
Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur	p. 30
History and Myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae	p. 44
The Chronicle Tradition	p. 58
Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend	p. 71
The Historical Context: Wales and England 800-1200	p. 73
Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism	p. 84
The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall	p. 102
Arthur and the Irish	p. 117
Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint	p. 128
Continental Arthurian Traditions	p. 143
The "Matter of Britain" on the Continent and the Legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain	p. 145
Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction	p. 160
The Allure of Otherworlds: The Arthurian Romances in Germany	p. 175
Scandinavian Versions of Arthurian Romance	p. 189
The Grail and French Arthurian Romance	p. 202
Arthur in Medieval English Literature	p. 219
The English Brut Tradition	p. 221
Arthurian Romance in English Popular Tradition: Sir Percy veil of Gales, Sir Cleges, and Sir Launfal	p. 235
English Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	p. 252
Sir Gawain in Middle English Romance	p. 265
The Medieval English Tristan	p. 278
From Medieval to Medievalism	p. 295
Malory's Morte Darthur and History	p. 297
Malory's Lancelot and Guenevere	p. 312
Malory and the Quest for the Holy Grail	p. 326
The Arthurian Legend in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries	p. 340
Scholarship and Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century	p. 355
Arthur in Victorian Poetry	p. 368
King Arthur in Art	p. 381
Arthur in the Modern Age	p. 401
A Postmodern Subject in Camelot: Mark Twain's (Re)Vision of Malory's Morte Darthur in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	p. 403
T. H. White's The Once and Future King	p. 420
Modernist Arthur: The Welsh Revival	p. 434
Historical Fiction and the Post-Imperial Arthur	p. 449
Feminism and the Fantasy Tradition: The Mists of Avalon	p. 463
Arthur on Film	p. 479
Remediating Arthur	p. 481
Arthur's American Round Table: The Hollywood Tradition	p. 496
The Art of Arthurian Cinema	p. 511
Digital Divagations in a Hyperreal Camelot: Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur	p. 525
Index	p. 543
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