The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Lacy, Norris J.

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Produktbeschreibung

The idea of the quest, crucial to Arthurian literature, investigated in texts, manuscripts, and film.

The theme of the quest in Arthurian literature - mainly but not exclusively the Grail quest - is explored in the essays presented here, covering French, Dutch, Norse, German, and English texts. A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chivalry and the Grail ethos. Whereas most of the contributors reflect on the popularity of the Grail quest, several examine the comparative rarity of the Grail in certain literatures and define the elaboration of quest motifs severed from the Grail material. An appendix to the volume offers a filmography that includes all the cinematic treatments of the Grail, either as central theme or minor motif.

This book will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers fascinated by the Arthurian and Grail legends.

CONTRIBUTORS: NORRIS J. LACY, ANTONIO FURTADO, WILL HASTY, RICHARD TRACHSLER, MARIANNE E. KALINKE, MARTINE MEUWESE, DAVID F. JOHNSON, PHILLIP BOARDMAN, CAROLINE D. ECKHARDT, P.J.C. FIELD, JAMES P. CARLEY, RICHARD BARBER, KEVIN J. HARTY

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782040200
• Artikelnr.: 63205714

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Norris J. Lacy Introduction: Arthur and/or the Grail
Norris J. Lacy The Shape of the Grail in Medieval Art
Martine Meuwese The Crusaders' Grail
Antonio L. Furtado Bounds of Imagination: Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
Will Hasty The Land Without the Grail: A Note on Occitania, Rigaut de Barbezieux and Literary History
Richard Trachsler Female Desire and the Quest in the Icelandic Legend of Tristram and Ísodd
Marianne Kalinke Questing in the Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation
David F. Johnson Keeping Company: Manuscript Contexts for Reading Arthurian Quest Narratives
Caroline Eckhardt Grail and Quest in the Medieval English World of Arthur
Phillip C Boardman Malory and the Grail: The Importance of Detail
Peter J.C. Field Glastonbury, the Grail
Bearer and the Sixteenth
Century Antiquaries
James Carley The Grail Quest: Where Next?
Richard Barber Appendix: The Grail on Film
Kevin J Harty