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 England and America from...
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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 England and America from the mid
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FRONTCOVER; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: The Early Tradition in England; 1 'But here Geoffrey falls silent': Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie; 2 Mordred's Sons; 3 Dying in Uncle Arthur's Arms and at His Hands; PART II: Middle English Romance and Malory; 4 'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and 'britned to not': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil; 5 Love and Death in Arthurian Romance; 6 Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript; 7 The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur
8 Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain9 'Layde to the Colde Erthe': Death, Arthur's Knights, and Narrative Closure; 10 Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above; 11 Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson's Idylls of the King; 12 Death as 'Neglect of Duty' in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur; 13 Death and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In Parenthesis; 14 Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur; INDEX; BACKCOVER
