Arthurian Literature XXXVI (eBook, PDF)

Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance
Redaktion: Leitch, Megan G; Whetter, K S

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein and Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's Perceval; spatial significance in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800101302
• Artikelnr.: 63205413

Inhaltsangabe

General Editors' Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Sacred Space
and Place in Arthurian Romance, Sarah Bowden and Susanne Friede 1. The
Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the Matière de Bretagne and
Medieval Ireland John Carey 2. Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and
Paradigmatic construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien's Conte du Graal
Susanne Friede 3. Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary
Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory's
'Tale of the Sankgreal' Martha Claire Baldon 4. Affirming Absence and
Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval
French Verse Romance Charlie Samuelson 5. Spaces of Remorse: Penitential
Allusions in Iwein Sarah Bowden 6. The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and
Damnation in Wigalois and the Prose Lancelot Andreas Hammer 7. 'Fantoum and
Fayry¿e': Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain Victoria Flood 8. The
Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur's Camelot Cory James Rushton