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Author: James Gollnick
Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. : Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese papers from the Kalamazoo Symposium on Merlin cover the subject from various angles, including a Jungian perspective, Merlin in Dryden's King Arthur, and Merlin in the Indo-European tradition.
Author: Laura C. Lambdin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 1136594256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis reference is a comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most enduring and influential works, such as Dante's Commedia, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and a large body of Arthurian lore and legend. While its emphasis is upon medieval English texts and society, this reference also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and Middle Age culture. Longer entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors such as Chaucer and Sir Thomas Malory, and of genre entries, such as drama, lyric, ballad, debate, saga, chronicle, and hagiography. Shorter entries examine particular literary works; significant kings, artists, explorers, and religious leaders; important themes, such as courtly love and chivalry; and major historical events, such as the Crusades. Each entry concludes with a brief biography. The volume closes with a list of the most valuable general works for further reading.
Author: James S. Baumlin
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2004-01-29
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780791459577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRereads Jung in light of contemporary theoretical concerns, and offers a variety of examples of post-Jungian literary and cultural criticism.
Author: John Matthews
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2020-09-15
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1445699214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMerlin remains the most famous and familiar image of the magician we possess. In this new book, Arthurian expert John Matthews examines the many guises of Merlin.
Author: Sanford Schwartz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-07-02
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0199888396
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSanford Schwartz offers a penetrating new reading of Lewis's celebrated Space Trilogy. Taken together, Schwartz's readings call into question Lewis's self-styled image as a "dinosaur" out of step with the main currents of modern thought. Far from a simple struggle between an old-fashioned Christian humanism and a newfangled heresy, Lewis's Space Trilogy should be seen as the searching effort of a modern religious apologist to sustain and enrich the former through critical engagement with the latter.
Author: Patricia Clare Ingham
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-04-07
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0812292545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring and after the Hundred Years War, English rulers struggled with a host of dynastic difficulties, including problems of royal succession, volatile relations with their French cousins, and the consolidation of their colonial ambitions toward the areas of Wales and Scotland. Patricia Ingham brings these precarious historical positions to bear on readings of Arthurian literature in Sovereign Fantasies, a provocative work deeply engaged with postcolonial and gender theory. Ingham argues that late medieval English Arthurian romance has broad cultural ambitions, offering a fantasy of insular union as an "imagined community" of British sovereignty. The Arthurian legends offer a means to explore England's historical indebtedness to and intimacies with Celtic culture, allowing nobles to repudiate their dynastic ties to France and claim themselves heirs to an insular heritage. Yet these traditions also provided a means to critique English conquest, elaborating the problems of centralized sovereignty and the suffering produced by chivalric culture. Texts such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, and Caxton's edition of Malory's Morte Darthur provide what she terms a "sovereign fantasy" for Britain. That is, Arthurian romance offers a cultural means to explore broad political contestations over British identity and heritage while also detailing the poignant complications and losses that belonging to such a community poses to particular regions and subjects. These contestations and complications emerge in exactly those aspects of the tales usually read as fantasy-for example, in the narratives of Arthur's losses, in the prophecies of his return, and in tales that dwell on death, exotic strangeness, uncanny magic, gender, and sexuality. Ingham's study suggests the nuances of the insular identity that is emphasized in this body of literature. Sovereign Fantasies shows the significance, rather than the irrelevance, of medieval dynastic motifs to projects of national unification, arguing that medieval studies can contribute to our understanding of national formations in part by marking the losses produced by union.
Author: Charlotte Spivack
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn all the essays given in this collection, the dynamic of the rival magicians is demonstrated to be as forceful in the society of the late-20th century as it was in their medieval and Renaissance beginnings. Essays include Acceptance and Assertion in Merlin and Faust, Good Wizard/Bad Wizard: Merlin and Faust Archetypes in Contemporary Children's Literature, Cinematic Representations, Yeats's Merlin-Faust Design in The Countess Cathleen, and many more.
Author: Elaine Barber
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780859916332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA, covers the years 1933 to 1998 inclusive. The cumulative volumes of the Bibliography offer an exhaustive author and title database of the burgeoning scholarship in this field.
Author: Martha W. Driver
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2004-07-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0786419261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew figures have captured Hollywood's and the public's imagination as completely as have medieval heroes. Cast as chivalric knight, warrior princess, "alpha male in tights," or an amalgamation, and as likely to appear in Hong Kong action flicks and spaghetti westerns as films set in the Middle Ages, the medieval hero on film serves many purposes. This collection of essays about the medieval hero on screen, contributed by scholars from a variety of disciplines, draws upon a wide range of movies and medieval texts. The essays are grouped into five sections, each with an introduction by the editors: an exploration of historic authenticity; heroic children and the lessons they convey to young viewers; medieval female heroes; the place of the hero's weapon in pop culture; and teaching the medieval movie in the classroom. Thirty-two film stills illustrate the work, and each essay includes notes, a filmography, and a bibliography. There is a foreword by Jonathan Rosenbaum, and an index is included. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Deborah Nelson-Campbell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-17
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 3319607294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of the medieval troubadour in modern love songs, the legacy of figures such as Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin in modern film and literature, and more generally, how courtly and chivalric conceptions of love have shaped the Western world’s conception of love, loyalty, honor, and adultery throughout history and to this day.
