Arthuriana 22.1 Out Now

The latest number of Arthuriana 22.1 for Spring 2012 is now available from the publisher and Project Muse. Contents are as follows:

Special Issue on Old Norse-Icelandic Arthurian Literature
Guest Edited by Kirsten Wolf and Keith Busby

Introduction
Kirsten Wolf and Keith Busby	3
Writing in the Margins: Norse Arthurian Sagas as Palimpsests
Norris J. Lacy	5
'Eveyone thought it very strange how the man had been shaped': The Hero and His Physical Traits in the Riddarasögur
Claudia Bornholdt	18
Translation or Adaptation? Parcevals saga as a Result of Cultural Transformation
Suzanne Marti	39
Cognitive Dysfunction in Dínus saga drambláta and Le Roman de Perceval
Geraldine Barnes	53
Ectors saga: An Arthurian Pastiche in Classical Guise
Marianne Kalinke	64
Tristram: From Civilizing Hero to Power Politician
Hans Jacob Orning	91
The Matter of blár in Tristrams kvæði
Natalie M. Van Deusen	109
THE ROUND TABLE	118
REVIEWS
Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Perceforest et Zéphir: Propositions autour d'un récit bourguignon
Denyse Delcourt	124
Bettina Bildhauer, Filming the Middle Ages
Kevin J. Harty	125
Andrew B.R. Elliott, Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and History in Portraying the Medieval World
Kathleen Coyne Kelly	127
Joerg O. Fichte, From Camelot to Obamalot: Essays on Medieval and Modern Arthurian Literature
Kevin J. Harty	128
Kevin J. Harty, ed., The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the Nordic Middle Ages
Shaun F.D. Hughes	129
Karen Jankulak, Writers of Wales: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Andrew Breeze	135
Marianne E. Kalinke, ed., The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the North and Rus' Realms
Shaun F.D. Hughes	136
Dana M. Oswald, Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen	142

Arthuriana 21.4 Out Now

The latest number of Arthuriana shipped this week. It is a slender volume and includes the following contents:

Table of Contents
(21.4)

Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Miscegenation, and Translatio in Two Lays of Lanval
Katherine McLoone 3

Chivalric Failure in The Jeaste of Sir Gawain
Sarah Lindsay 23

Arthur's Ermine Arms
Norris J. Lacy 42

The Charm of (Re)making: Problems of Arthurian Television Serialization
Andrew B. R. Elliott 53


REVIEWS


Frank Brandsma, The Interlace Structure of the Third Part of the Prose Lancelot 68
Michelle Szkilnik

Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Chrétien Continued: A Study of the Conte du Graal and its Verse Continuations 69
Ewa Slojka

Sergi Mainer, The Scottish Romance Tradition, c. 1375–c. 1550: Nation, Chivalry and Knighthood. 71
Nicola Royan

Zrinka Stahuljak, Virginie Greene, Sarah Kay, Sharon Kinoshita, and Peggy
McCracken, Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes. 72
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner

Monica L. Wright. Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance 74
Paula Mae Carns
 

Arthurian Heroes and Villains

Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance
Edited by Neil Cartlidge

Details

First Published: 19 Apr 2012

$90.00
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843843047
Pages: 244
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
Details updated on 27 Nov 2011


Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous, antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be, and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the genre that has been frequently discussed up. Focusing on fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval narrative, this book attempts to illustrate the range of different ways in which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often depends on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism.

Dr Neil Cartlidge is Lecturer in English at the University of Durham.

Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin, James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath


Contents
1 Introduction
2 Turnus
3 Alexander the Great
4 Hengist
5 Harold Godwineson
6 Mordred
7 Merlin
8 Gawain
9 Gamelyn
10 Ralph the Collier
11 The Antiheroic Heart
12 Crusaders
13 Saracens
14 Ungallant Knights
15 Sons of Devils

ICoM 2011

With apologies for cross-posting:

The International Society for the Study of Medievalism recently convened its 26th International Conference on Medievalism at the University of New Mexico under the general theme of Medievalism, Arthuriana, and Landscapes of Enchantment from 21-22 October 2011. Sessions on Arthurian subjects covered material from the early modern era to today and explored the Matter of Britain in drama, musical theater, fiction, and television..

The complete program can be accessed at http://ims.unm.edu/sim/.

Arthurian Literature for 2010

Publisher D. S. Brewer has recently released an all Malory issue of the annual Arthurian Literature. Unfortunately, the contributors are not listed online, but other details are as follows:

Arthurian Literature XXVIII
Spec. Issue: Blood, Sex, Malory: Essays on the Morte Darthur
Edited by David Clark and Kate McClune.

First Published: 20 Oct 2011
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843842811
Pages: 214
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer

Sex, blood, and gender have diverse associations in the Malorian tradition, yet their inter-relatedness and intersections are comparatively understudied. This present collection of essays is intended to go some way toward remedying the need for a sustained examination of blood ties, kinship, gender, and sexuality, and the prominence of these themes in Malory's work. They concentrate in particular upon the analyses of sexuality and sexual activity (and its lack or erasure) and the significance of blood (and blood-shedding) in the Morte Darthur, as well as the interconnections with gender (biological sex) and familial ("blood") relations in the Morte, its sources and its later reworkings. The result is a wide-ranging investigation into related but distinctive thematic preoccupations, including the national and kinship affiliations of Malorian knights, sibling relationships, deviant sexuality, and blood-spilling in martial and intimate contexts.

Contents
1 Preface
2 Reading Malory's Bloody Bedrooms
3 [Dis]Figuring Transgressive Desire: Blood, Sex, and Stained Sheets in Malory's Morte Darthur
4 Bewmaynes: The Threat from the Kitchen
5 Sibling Relations in Malory's Morte Darthur
6 'Traytoures' and 'Treson': the Language of Treason in the Works of Sir Thomas Malory
7 'The Vengeaunce of My Brethirne': Blood Ties in Malory's Morte Darthur
8 Malory and the Scots
9 Blood, Faith and Saracens in 'The Book of Sir Tristram'
10 Barriers Unbroken: Sir Palomydes the Saracen in 'The Book of Sir Tristram'
11 Virginity, Sexuality, Repression and Return in the 'Tale of the Sankgreal'
12 Launcelot in Compromising Positions: Fabliau in Malory's 'Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake'

Arthuriana for Fall 2011

The latest issue of Arthuriana was recently released to print and digital subscribers (it is also available on Project Muse to those with access to the service). The issue is devoted to medieval Arthuriana, but the reviews include some comments on modern adaptions of the legend. Contents are as follows:

Arthuriana 21.3 (Fall 2011)

The Failure of Justice, The Failure of Arthur
Laura K. Bedwell 3

Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances
Sandy Feinstein 23

Salvage Anthropology and Displaced Mourning in the Lais of Marie de France
Shirin Azizeh Khanmohamadi 49

Malory's Marginalia Reconsidered
James Wade 70

The Round Table 87 [a report from the IAS Triennial Congress this past summer]


REVIEWS

Mark Adderely, The Hawk and the Cup 91
Ann Howey

Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjevic, and Judith Weiss, eds., The Exploitations of Medieval Romance 92
Myra Seaman

Barbara Tepa Lupack, The Girls' King Arthur: Tales of the Women of Camelot 95
Amy S. Kaufman

Molly Martin, Vision and Gender in Malory's Morte Darthur 96
Kenneth Hodges

Lancelot Grail:The Old French Arhturian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate Translation. Parts I and II 98
Joan Tasker Grimbert

Hanks on Tolkien and Malory

I came across the following essay earlier today:

Hanks, D. Thomas, Jr. “ ‘A Far Green Country Under a Swift Sunrise’—Tolkien’s Eucastastrophe and Malory’s ‘Morte Darthur'.” Fifteenth-Century Studies 36 (2011): 49-64.

Excerpts are available on Amazon and through Google Books, and, through them, one can see that Hanks' offers an insightful reassessment of Malory's final book based on Tolkien's theories of narrative presented in the essay "On Fairy Stories." This is definitely something to track down and read the full version. 

Michael Torregrossa

Kalamazoo Roundtable on Arthurian Film and TV

Finalized details on our co-sponsored roundtable on Arthurian film and television can now be viewed at the Are Your From Camelot? blog.

Arthurian Stories for Kids (and the Young at Heart)

The BBC website features a series of four Arthurian stories as part of their Wales History section as follows:

"Morgana's Secret Island" (two modern-day kids met Morgan le Fay and visit Avalon)

"Sabrina's Mountain Adventure" (a modern-day girl travels to the Arthurian past and interacts with Cai and Bedwyr)

"Becoming Merlin" (a retelling of Merlin's coming into his powers)

"Guinevere's Wedding" (an account of Guinevere's first meeting with King Arthur)

The stories are accompanied by a series of games related to the four stories, and both the stories and games are also available in Welsh. In addition, the website also includes a selection of stories adapted from the Mabinogion (including the Arthurian tales), but these (as far as I can determine) are only available in Welsh at this time.

Arthuriana 21.1

I seem to have missed posting this earlier in the year (the journal is available in print and online to subscribers only):

Arthuriana 21.1
Table of Contents

Special Issue on Renaissance Arthurian Literature and C. S. Lewis
Guest edited by Ty Buckman and Charles Ross

An Arthurian Omaggio to Michael Murrin and James Nohrnberg
Ty Buckman and Charles Ross 3

Spenser and the Search for Asian Silk
Michael Murrin 7

The Mythical Method in Song, Saga, Prose and Verse: Part One
James C. Nohrnberg 20

'Arthurian Torsos' and Professor Nohrnberg's Unrepeatable Experiment
Ty Buckman 39

Arthuriana and the Limits of C. S. Lewis' Ariosto Marginalia
Charles Ross 46

Merlin, Magic, and the Meta-fantastic: The Matter of That Hideous Strength 66
Thomas L. Martin

Corcodiles and Crusades: Egypt in Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso 85
Jo Ann Cavallo

Delay the War but Not the Sex: Boiardo on Action and Time 97
Brady J. Spangenberg


REVIEWS

Karen Cherewatuk and K. S. Whetter, eds., The Arthurian Way of Death: The English Tradition
Keith Busby 110

Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter, eds, The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend
Alex Mueller 111

Curt Columbus, dir. 'Lerner & Loewe's Camelot'
Kevin J. Harty 113

Rosalind Field, Phillipa Hardman and Michelle Sweeney, eds., Christianity and Romance in Medieval England
Thomas H. Crofts 114

Helen Fulton, ed., A Companion to Arthurian Literature
Jane H. M. Taylor 116