"Beginning with the historical Arthur and his Celtic origins, this volume chronicles the transmission of the legend throughout Britain and Europe. Arthurian legends within the medieval and Victorian literary movements and the iconography of Arthurian...
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"Beginning with the historical Arthur and his Celtic origins, this volume chronicles the transmission of the legend throughout Britain and Europe. Arthurian legends within the medieval and Victorian literary movements and the iconography of Arthurian themes in art are surveyed, and the symbolic role of Arthur in modernist literature ushers in the twentieth century, while the feminist approach of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon initiates a genre of fantasy fiction based on a richly conceived Arthurian world. Finally, the Companion highlights the rebirth and legacy of the Arthurian legend in contemporary films and compurer games." "Part of Blackwell's popular Companions to Literature and Culture series, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arrhurian literarure and leaves no doubt as to why it is still important today."--Jacket "This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings of the contemporary manifestations of Arthur in film and electronic media. Leading scholars review Arthurian legends and their transformations, language-to-language, text-to-film, and medieval-to-modern adaptations are analyzed, and key concepts such as "empire," "romance," and "chivalry" are explored
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Theories and Debates; Part I: The Arthur of History; 1: The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons: An Archaeological Context for Arthur?; 2: Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur; 3: History and Myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae; 4: The Chronicle Tradition; Part II: Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend; 5: The Historical Context: Wales and England 800-1200; 6: Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism
7: The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall8: Arthur and the Irish; 9: Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint; Part III: Continental Arthurian Traditions; 10: The "Matter of Britain" on the Continent and the Legend of Tristan and Iseult in France, Italy, and Spain; 11: Chrétien de Troyes and the Invention of Arthurian Courtly Fiction; 12: The Allure of Otherworlds: The Arthurian Romances in Germany; 13: Scandinavian Versions of Arthurian Romance; 14: The Grail and French Arthurian Romance; Part IV: Arthur in Medieval English Literature; 15: The English Brut Tradition
16: Arthurian Romance in English Popular Tradition: Sir Percyvell of Gales, Sir Cleges, and Sir Launfal17: English Chivalry and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 18: Sir Gawain in Middle English Romance; 19: The Medieval English Tristan; Part V: From Medieval to Medievalism; 20: Malory's Morte Darthur and History; 21: Malory's Lancelot and Guenevere; 22: Malory and the Quest for the Holy Grail; 23: The Arthurian Legend in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries; 24: Scholarship and Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century; 25: Arthur in Victorian Poetry; 26: King Arthur in Art
Part VI: Arthur in the Modern Age27: A Postmodern Subject in Camelot: Mark Twain's (Re)Vision of Malory's Morte Darthur in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; 28: T. H. White's The Once and Future King; 29: Modernist Arthur: The Welsh Revival; 30: Historical Fiction and the Post-Imperial Arthur; 31: Feminism and the Fantasy Tradition: The Mists of Avalon; Part VII: Arthur on Film; 32: Remediating Arthur; 33: Arthur's American Round Table: The Hollywood Tradition; 34: The Art of Arthurian Cinema; 35: Digital Divagations in a Hyperreal Camelot: Antoine Fuqua's King Arthur; Index