To me, methought, who waited with a crowd,
There came a bark that, blowing forward, bore
King Arthur, like a modern gentleman
Of stateliest port; and all the people cried,
"Arthur is come again: he cannot die."

"Morte d'Arthur" (1842)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Arthuriana for Winter 2013

Arthuriana 23.4 (Winter 2013)

IV. Iceland, Images, Ideals, and Indices

From the Editor
Dorsey Armstrong

Eminent Arthurian: Geoffrey Ashe
Norris J. Lacy

Arthurian Knights in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Erex Saga and Ívens Saga in the World of Ormur Snorrason  Bjørn Bandlien

Picturing Arthur in English History: Text and Image in the Middle English Prose Brut  
Elizabeth Bryan

To the Well: Malory’s Sir Palomides on Ideals of Chivalric Reputation, Male Frienship, Romantic Love, Religious Conversion—and Loyalty
Sue Ellen Holbrook
 
Dating De ortu Waluuanii from Twelfth-Century Ship Design
Mildred Leake Day
 
 
REVIEWS
 
 
Arthur Bahr, Fragments and Assemblages: Forming Compilations of Medieval London
Leah Haught
 
Emma Campbell and Robert Mills, eds., Rethinking Medieval Translation: Ethics, Politics, Theory
Michèle Goyens
 
Alan J. Fletcher, The Presence of Medieval English Literature: Studies at the Interface of History, Author and Text in a Selection of Middle English Literary Landmarks
Arthur Bahr
 
Kathleen Forni, Chaucer’s Afterlife: Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture
Marie Schilling Grogan
 
Karen L. Frescon and Charles D. Wright, eds, Translating the Middle Ages
Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath

Marie de France, The Lays, trans. Edward J. Gallagher.
Norris J. Lacy
 
Michael N. Salda, Arthurian Animation: A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television
Roger Simpson
 
Sif Rikhardsdottir, Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Movement of Texts in England, France, and Scandinavia
Matthieu Boyd
 
Karl Steel, How to Make a Human: Animals and Violence in the Middle Ages
Ryan R. Judkins
 
Carolynn Van Dyke, ed., Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts
Carl Grey Martin

Arthuriana 23.3 for Fall 2013

Arthuriana 23.3 (Fall 2013)

III. Grails, Innocents, and Apocalypses

Verse and Prose in the Continuations of Chrétien de Troyes’ Conte du Graal
Massimiliano Gaggero

The Communication of Culture: Speech and the ‘Grail’ Procession in Historia Peredur vab Efrawc
A. Joseph McMullen

Jessie Weston and the Green Knight
Daniel Nastali

King Arthur and His Knights for Edwardian Children
Velma Bourgeois Richmond

Envisioning the End: History and Consciousness in Medieval English
Arthurian Romance
Jon Whitman
 
 
REVIEWS
 
Susan Aronstein, An Introduction to British Arthurian Narrative
Siân Echard
 
Paul Battles, ed., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Michael W. Twomey
 
Lawrence Besserman, Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature:
From Cædmon to Malory
Mary Davy Behrman
 
John M. Bowers, An Introduction to the Gawain Poet
Ad Putter
 
Nigel Bryant, trans., Perceforest: The Prehistory of King Arthur’s Britain
Karen Casebier
 
Neil Cartlidge, ed., Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance
Raluca l. Radulescu

C. Stephen Jaeger, ed., Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music
Tara Williams
 
Catherine Nall, Reading and War in Fifteenth-Century England: From Lydgate to Malory
Thomas H. Crofts
 
John A. Pitcher, Chaucer’s Feminine Subjects: Figures of Desire in the
Canterbury Tales
Giselle Gos

Seiji Shinkawa, Unhistorical Gender Assignment in La3amon’s Brut: A Case Study of a Late Stage in the Development of Grammatical Gender toward its Ultimate Loss
Mary Niepokuj ]
 
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Arthur
Shaun F.D. Hughes
Christopher A. Synder


Arthuriana 23.2 for Summer 2013

Arthuriana 23.2 (Summer 2013)

II. Merlin

The Arthurian Opera by Isaac Albéniz and Francis Money-Coutts (1852–1923): Libretto Translation Theories Applied to Merlin  
Juan Miguel Zarandona

La fin de Merlin dans la Suite du Roman de Merlin, son adaptation espagnole, le Baladro del sabio Merlin, et trois romans de chevalerie espagnols
Rosalba Lendo

The Devil’s in the Detail: Translating Merlin’s Father from the Merlin en Prose in Paulino Pieri’s Storia di Merlino
Laura J. Campbell

Ruled by Merlin: Mirrors for Princes, Counseling Patterns and Malory’s ‘Tale of King Arthur’
Louise Boyle

 
REVIEWS
 
David Clark and Kate McClune, eds., Arthurian Literature XXVIII, Blood, Sex, Malory: Essays on the Morte Darthur
Kenneth Hodges
 
Karl Fugelso, ed., Studies in Medievalism XXI: Corporate Medievalism II
Roberta Davidson
 
Laurent Guyénot, La Lance qui saigne: Métatextes et hypertextes du ‘Conte de Graal’ de Chrétien de Troyes
Ann McCollough
 
Sharon Kinoshita and Peggy McCracken, Marie de France: A Critical Companion
Matthieu Boyd

David Lang, love fail
Joan Tasker Grimbert
 
Nicholas Perkins and Alison Wiggins, The Romance of the Middle Ages
Robert Rouse
 
Carol L. Robinson and Pamela Clements, eds., Neomedievalism in the Media: Essays on Film, Television, and Electronic Games
Nickolas Haydock
 
Nicole D. Smith, Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval England
E. Jane Burns


Arthuriana 23.1 for Spring 2013

A long delayed contents update on Arthuriana. Here is the first of 4 posts. All of the papers are revised from conference presentations at the 2011 meeting of the Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society. 

Arthuriana 23.1 (Spring 2013)

From the Editor
Dorsey Armstrong

Arthur Pendragon, Eco-Warrior
Laurie A. Finke And Martin B. Shichtman

The Eco-Tourist, English Heritage, and Arthurian Legend: Walking with Thoreau
Kathleen Coyne Kelly

Reading Ruins: Arthurian Caerleon and the Untimely Architecture of History
Robert Rouse

‘The Wilderness of Wirral’ in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gillian Rudd
 
 
THE ROUND TABLE

 
REVIEWS
 
Peter Ackroyd, The Death of King Arthur
Samantha J. Rayner
 
C. Stephen Jaeger, Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
Albrecht Classen
 
Stephen Knight, ed., Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition  Kevin J. Harty
 
Jeff Rider and Jamie Friedman, eds., The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy
Amy N. Vines
 
Linda Marie Zaerr, Performance and the Middle English Romance
Robert Boenig