Ethics in the Arthurian Legend (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Elmes, Melissa Ridley; Meyer, Evelyn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature.

From its earliest days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of good kingship, the behaviours of a ruling class, and their effects on communities, societies, and nations, both locally and in imperial and colonizing contexts. Ethical considerations inform and are informed by local anxieties tied to questions of power and identity, especially where leadership, service, and governance are concerned; they provide a framework for understanding how the texts operate as didactic and critical tools of these subjects.

This book brings together chapters drawing on English, Welsh, German, Dutch, French, and Norse iterations of the Arthurian legend, and bridging premodern and modern temporalities, to investigate the representation of ethics in Arthurian literature across interdisciplinary and transhistorical lines. They engage a variety of methodologies, including gender, critical race theory, philology, literature and the law, translation theory, game studies, comparative, critical, and close reading, and modern editorial and authorial practices. Texts interrogated range from Culhwch and Olwen to Parzival, Roman van Walewein, Tristrams Saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte Darthur.

As a whole, the approaches and findings in this volume attest to the continued value and importance of the Arthurian legend and its scholarship as a vibrant field through which to locate and understand the many ways in which medieval literature continues to inform modern sensibilities and institutions, particularly where the matter of ethics is concerned.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805430612
• Artikelnr.: 68206493

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Jane Gilbert Acknowledgements "Introduction" - Melissa Ridley
Elmes and Evelyn Meyer Arthurian Ethics before the Pentecostal Oath: In
Search of Ethical Origins in Culhwch and Olwen - Melissa Ridley Elmes Too
Quickly or Not Quickly Enough, Too Rash and Too Harshly: The Arthurian
Court's Lack of Ethics in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein and Wolfram von
Eschenbach's Parzival - Evelyn Meyer The Ethics of Arthurian Marriage:
Husband vs. Wife in Hartmann von Aue's Iwein - Jonathan Seelye Martin
Arthurian Ethics and Ethical Reading in the Perlesvaus - Joseph Derosier
Translation Praxis and the Ethical Value of Chivalry in the Caligula Brut
- Christopher Jensen Imperial Ambitions and the Ethics of Power: Gender,
Race, and the Riddarasögur - Nahir Otaño Gracia Lowland Ethics in the
Arthur of the Dutch - David F. Johnson Contesting Royal Power: The Ethics
of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales -
Steven Bruso 'As egir as any lyoun': The Ethics of Knight-Horse
Relationships in Lybeaus Desconus - Caitlin G. Watt Malory's Ethical
Dinadan: Moderate Masculinity in a Crisis of Hypermasculine Chivalry -
Matthew D. O'Donnell Virtus, Vertues, and Gender: Cultivating a Chivalric
Habitus in Thomas Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth - Holly A. Crocker Kingly
Disguise and (Im)Perception in Three Fifteenth-Century English Romances -
Mikayla Hunter 'Adventure? What is that?' Arthurian Ethics in/and the Games
We Play" - Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand The Ethics of a New Edition of
Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur - and More Evidence for the
Superiority of the Winchester Manuscript - ¿ Fiona Tolhurst and K. S.
Whetter The Ethics of Writing Guinevere in Modern Historical Fiction -
Nicole Evelina Afterword - Elizabeth Archibald