Sunday, April 8, 2012

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 Busby3

Writing in the Margins: Norse Arthurian Sagas as Palimpsests
Norris J. Lacy5

'Eveyone thought it very strange how the man had been shaped':
The Hero and His Physical Traits in the Riddarasögur
Claudia Bornholdt18

Translation or Adaptation? Parcevals saga as a Result of
Cultural Transformation
Suzanne Marti39

Cognitive Dysfunction in Dínus saga drambláta and
Le Roman de Perceval
Geraldine Barnes53

Ectors saga: An Arthurian Pastiche in Classical Guise
Marianne Kalinke64

Tristram: From Civilizing Hero to Power Politician
Hans Jacob Orning91

The Matter of blár in Tristrams kvæði
Natalie M. Van Deusen109

THE ROUND TABLE118

REVIEWS
Christine Ferlampin-Acher, Perceforest et Zéphir:
Propositions autour d'un récit bourguignon
Denyse Delcourt124

Bettina Bildhauer, Filming the Middle Ages
Kevin J. Harty125

Andrew B.R. Elliott, Remaking the Middle Ages: The Methods of Cinema and
History in Portraying the Medieval World
Kathleen Coyne Kelly127

Joerg O. Fichte, From Camelot to Obamalot: Essays on Medieval and
Modern Arthurian Literature
Kevin J. Harty128

Kevin J. Harty, ed., The Vikings on Film: Essays on Depictions of the
Nordic Middle Ages
Shaun F.D. Hughes129

Karen Jankulak, Writers of Wales: Geoffrey of Monmouth
Andrew Breeze135

Marianne E. Kalinke, ed., The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian Legend in the
North and Rus' Realms
Shaun F.D. Hughes136

Dana M. Oswald, Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen142