This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and...
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This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Intro -- Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations -- 1. From Lancelot to Galahad: The Stakes of Filiation -- 2. Variations in the Patterns of Interlace in the Lancelot-Grail -- 3. Age and the Ages of Life in the Prose Lancelot -- 4. The Narration of Youthful Exploits in the Prose Lancelot -- 5. The Mort Artu and Cyclic Closure -- 6. Autobiography and History in the Vulgate Estoire and in the Prose Merlin -- 7. "Or dist li contes": Narrative Interventions and the Implied Audience in the Estoire del Saint Graal -- 8. Cité or Vile? A Lexical Problem in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle -- 9. Ladies Don't Wear Braies: Underwear and Outerwear in the French Prose Lancelot -- 10. The Acclimatization of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Spain and Portugal -- 11. An Italian Reaction to the French Prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Matteo Maria Boiardo and the Knight's Quest for Identity -- 12. The Idea of a Cycle: Malory, the Lancelot-Grail, and the Prose Tristan -- 13. Lancelot's Vocation: Traitor Saint -- Index -- Index of Passages Cited from the Lancelot-Grail Cycle -- Index of Names and Themes.
