Recent from D S Brewer - Arthurian Literature 38 for 2023

Arthurian Literature XXXVIII

Edited by Kevin S Whetter and Megan G Leitch

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TITLE DETAILS

342 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

3 b/w

Series: Arthurian Literature

Series Vol. Number: 38

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

Hardcover

9781843846475

April 2023

£75.00 / $115.00 

(also available as an ebook)

DESCRIPTION

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, followed by explorations of shame in Malory's Morte Darthur. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.

CONTENTS

1. Animals at the Feast: Strange Strangers and Courtly Power in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle - C. M. Palmer

2. The Kindred of a Boy without a Father: Merlin's British Forebears and Irish Cousins -John Carey

3. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Subtle Subversion: Active Double-Voiced Discourse in the Historia regum Britanniae - Vanessa K. Iacocca

4. 'Cornwall, up in the North': Geography and Place Names in the Source of the Old Icelandic Brut - Hélène Tétrel

5. Enacting Arthurianism in the Order of the Garter and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - Matt Clancy

6. Deviants and Dissenters: Theorizing Shame and Punishment in Malory's Morte - Richard Sévère

7. Loyalty and Worshyp in Conflict in Malory's Lancelot - Manabu Agari

8. Emotional Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur: Shame and the Lott-Pellinore Feud - Karen Cherewatuk

9. Navigating and Indexing Arthurian Romance in Benoît Rigaud's Edition of Lancelot du Lake (1591) - Jane H. M. Taylor and Leah Tether

10. 'A great many strange puppets': Queen Caroline, Merlin's Cave, and Symbolic Arthurianism in the Age of Reason - Amy Louise Blaney

11. 'How Galahad Regained his Virginity: Dead Women, Catholicism, and the Grail in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry' - Kenneth Hodges

12. 'Merlin's Woodland House: Irish Cosmology in the Vita Merlini?' - Jennifer Lopatin and A. Joseph McMullen

13. Malory and the Book of St Albans - P. J. C. Field

Arthuriana Winter 2020

Catching up:

Arthuriana, Volume 30, Number 4

Winter 2020

Source: http://www.arthuriana.org/access/30-4Contents.html.

 

Table of Contents

‘I rebel against the story. I am sure the half of it was never told us’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ ‘The True Story of Guenever’ and Nineteenth-Century Women in the Literary Marketplace
Virginia Blanton and Jennifer Phegley	3
The Hero and Severed Heads: Moral Display in the Prose Lancelot
David S. King	26
Colgrevaunce’s Supposed Shame in Ywain and Gawain
Ryan Naughton	41
Malory’s ‘Fyne Force’: Motion in Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Schneider	56
REVIEWS
Valerie Hansen, The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Jonathan Good	70
Carissa M. Harris, Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Eduation in Late Medieval Britain
Amanda Joan Wetmore	73
Kevin J. Harty, ed., Medieval Women on Film: Essays on Gender, Cinema and History
Susan Aronstein	74
Joachim Heinzle, Wolfram von Eschenbach: Dichter der ritterlichen Welt
Judith Benz	76
Stephen Rayne, dir., Xcalibur, The Musical
Kevin J. Harty	78

CFP English Arthurian Literature Between Malory and Tennyson (9/15/19; Kalamazoo 2020)

Posted on behalf of Chris Berard:

CFP: ENGLISH ARTHURIAN LITERATURE BETWEEN MALORY AND TENNYSON

International Arthurian Society-North American Branch-sponsored session
ICMS “Kalamazoo” 2020

The four centuries between William Caxton’s publication of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (1485) and the completion of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s cycle of twelve narrative Arthurian poems, The Idylls of the King (1885), tend to be regarded as ‘an Arthurian nadir’ for English-language Arthurian literature. This generalization, as Alan Lupack has noted, trivializes a rich assortment of texts in which Arthur plays a leading role, but one that often departs considerably from his Malorian likeness. This panel seeks to foster an exploration of the portrayal of King Arthur within this corpus of ‘lesser’ Arthuriana. Our aim is to promote interest in these oft-forgotten texts, and to explore how these treatments of Arthur more broadly illuminate post-medieval reception of the history and literature of the Middle Ages. We invite you to explore the portrayal of King Arthur in English literary works written between 1485 and 1885—the more eccentric, the better. How was King Arthur applied to the cultural context in which the given text was composed? Did medieval Arthurian narratives serve as source material? We encourage an examination of the harmonization, successful or unsuccessful, of old and new genres and motifs.

Session format: 15-20-minute papers

Please send your 300-word abstract and completed  PIF form to David Johnson, djohnson@fsu.edu, and Christopher Berard, cberard2@providence.edu,  by September 15.