A Lady of King Arthur's Court
Author: Sara Hawks Sterling
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 288
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Author: Sara Hawks Sterling
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis novel from the early 20th century is a twist on the Arthurian legends.
Author: Sara Hawks Sterling
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780665986420
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Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1969-02-28
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780140442205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComposed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rash Gawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journey through danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail. But only one of them is judged worthy to see the mysteries within the sacred vessel, and look upon the ineffable. Enfused with tragic grandeur and an aura of mysticism, The Quest is an absorbing and radiant allegory of man's perilous search for divine grace, and had a profound influence on later Arthurian romances and versions of the Grail legend. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Joseph Campbell
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Published: 2022-08-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781608688289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first collection of Joseph Campbell's writings and lectures on the Arthurian romances of the Middle Ages, a central focus of his celebrated scholarship, now in paperback Throughout his life, Joseph Campbell was deeply engaged in the study of the Grail Quests and Arthurian legends of the European Middle Ages. In this new paperback volume of the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell, editor Evans Lansing Smith collects Campbell's writings and lectures on Arthurian legends, including his never-before-published master's thesis on Arthurian myth, "A Study of the Dolorous Stroke." Campbell's writing captures the incredible stories of such figures as Merlin, Gawain, and Guinevere as well as the larger patterns and meanings revealed in these myths. Merlin's death and Arthur receiving Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, for example, are not just vibrant stories but also central to the mythologist's thinking. The Arthurian myths opened the world of comparative mythology to Campbell, turning his attention to the Near and Far Eastern roots of myth. Calling the Arthurian romances the world's first "secular mythology," Campbell found metaphors in them for human stages of growth, development, and psychology. The myths exemplify the kind of love Campbell called amor, in which individuals become more fully themselves through connection. Campbell's infectious delight in his discoveries makes this volume essential for anyone intrigued by the stories we tell--and the stories behind them.
Author: Emma Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 9780691002378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWriting in a clear and readable style, two leading women of the Jungian school of psychology present this legend as a living myth that is profoundly relevant to modern life. 17 illustrations.
Author: Norris J. Lacy
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415877244
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Beverly Taylor
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0859911365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revival of interest in Arthurian legend in the 19th century was a remarkable phenomenon, apparently at odds with the spirit of the age. Tennyson was widely criticised for his choice of a medieval topic; yet The Idylls of the Kingwere accepted as the national epic, and a flood of lesser works was inspired by them, on both sides of the Atlantic. Elisabeth Brewer and Beverly Taylor survey the course of Arthurian literature from 1800 to the present day, and give an account of all the major English and American contributions. Some of the works are well-known, but there are also a host of names which will be new to most readers, and some surprises, such as J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur, rightly ignored as a text, but a piece oftheatrical history, for Sir Henry Irving played King Arthur, Ellen Terry was Guinevere, Arthur Sullivan wrote the music, and Burne-Jones designed the sets. The Arthurian works of the Pre-Raphaelites are discussed at length, as are the poemsof Edward Arlington Robinson, John Masefield and Charles Williams. Other writers have used the legends as part of a wider cultural consciousness: The Waste Land, David Jones's In Parenthesis and The Anathemata, and the echoes ofTristan and Iseult in Finnigan's Wake are discussed in this context. Novels on Arthurian themes are given their due place, from the satirical scenes of Thomas Love Peacock's The Misfortunes of Elphin and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court to T.H. White's serio-comic The Once and Future King and the many recent novelists who have turned away from the chivalric Arthur to depict him as a Dark Age ruler. The Return of King Arthurincludes a bibliography of British and American creative writing relating to the Arthurian legends from 1800 to the present day.
Author: John Barry Marino
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781843840220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here.
Author: John L. Grigsby
Publisher: Summa Publications, Inc.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780917786747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Lupack
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1999-05-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1136801294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArthurian Literature by Women: An Anthology is a collection of Arthurian poems, stories, and plays by women, from Marie de France to the present, all of which are either significant examples of Arthurian literature or innovative interpretations of Arthurian tradition. Rather than reproducing brief selections from contemporary novels that are readil