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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. TLS Appropriately for the journal's fortieth milestone, this volume of Arthurian Literature offers an especially wide range of topics, from printers' modifications in early Arthurian books to a study of archetypal characters in several linguistic traditions. It begins with the winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, which has this year been awarded to an original and intriguing investigation of how and why Wynkyn de Worde (or various of his staff working under his direction) modified his 1529 printing of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. Thereafter, literary-critical explorations range across French, Welsh, and Middle English Arthurian literatures, including examinations of marriage in Chrétien's Chevalier au Lion, Peredur in the Welsh Grail texts, fairies and cosmic providence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the shifting degrees of agency possessed by Malory's Gwenyvere. The volume also features a lively reconsideration of the Arthurian tomb at Glastonbury from the point of view of material culture, and an examination of Arthur's hagiographical characterisation in Latin-Breton Saints Lives'. It closes with a survey of twentieth-century English-language retellings of Arthurian fiction that highlights female authors' many contributions to the genre.

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Author:   Megan G Leitch ,  K S Whetter (Royalty Account, Acadia University) ,  Arielle McKee ,  Ashley Walchester
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781843847403

ISBN 10:   184384740
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   08 April 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. The Derek Brewer Essay Prize: A Variant Reading in Wynkyn de Worde's 1529 Edition of Le Morte Darthur: The Question of Bors' Threnody - Ashley Walchester 2. The Arthur of the Bretons: Hagiographical Evidence for the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Brittany - Jessica Shales 3. Li Biaus Niais - an Arthurian Archetype? - Corin Corley 4. God Loves Marriage: Symbolism Beyond the Lion in the Chevalier au lion (Yvain) - David S. King 5. Why the Welsh Peredur is the Second-best Knight in the World: Ystoryaeu Seint Greal and the Cyclic Impulse in Medieval Welsh Literature - Erich Poppe and Claudia Zimmermann 6. The Tomb of Arthur, Edward I and Eleanor of Castile: The European Dimension - Paul Binski 7. Immanence Front: Cosmic Redemption and Fairy Movers in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Arielle McKee 8. Gwenyvere's Vocal Agency in Malory's Morte Darthur - Mairi Stirling Hill 9. Twentieth-Century Women Writers Re-Vision the Arthurian Narrative - Nejwa Knight Al-Ghoraibi Details of, and annual call for submissions to, the Derek Brewer Prize

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MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.

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