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Studies in Arthurian and Chronicle Traditions in Memory of Fiona Tolhurst
Quondam et Futurus
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Essays examining Arthurian and Chronicle texts, contexts, and reception, in honour of Fiona Tolhurst's contributions to Arthurian Studies.
In her all-too-short but ground-breaking academic career, Fiona Tolhurst made significant contributions to the discipline of Arthurian Studies, advancing, amongst much else, understanding of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Arthurian Women, the English Mortes, and modern Arthuriana, including cinematic versions of the legend. The essays assembled here reflect her commitment to explication of Arthurian and Chronicle texts and contexts. Several engage with Geoffrey of Monmouth, examining, among other topics, the depiction of women in his narrative of British origins; the function of giants and significance of landscape and geography in his writings; the contrast between Geoffrey's Trojan-British empire and the Graeco-Egyptian foundation narratives of Scottish and Irish chronicles; and the reception and use of his writing from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Other contributors consider characterization and politics in the Brut tradition and Malory; the puzzling dualities of the alliterative Morte; the reception of Malory's "Trystram"; continuities between medieval and modern readings of the Morte Darthur; and the uses, adaptation, and appropriation of Arthurian themes and ideals in the twenty-first century.
In her all-too-short but ground-breaking academic career, Fiona Tolhurst made significant contributions to the discipline of Arthurian Studies, advancing, amongst much else, understanding of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Arthurian Women, the English Mortes, and modern Arthuriana, including cinematic versions of the legend. The essays assembled here reflect her commitment to explication of Arthurian and Chronicle texts and contexts. Several engage with Geoffrey of Monmouth, examining, among other topics, the depiction of women in his narrative of British origins; the function of giants and significance of landscape and geography in his writings; the contrast between Geoffrey's Trojan-British empire and the Graeco-Egyptian foundation narratives of Scottish and Irish chronicles; and the reception and use of his writing from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Other contributors consider characterization and politics in the Brut tradition and Malory; the puzzling dualities of the alliterative Morte; the reception of Malory's "Trystram"; continuities between medieval and modern readings of the Morte Darthur; and the uses, adaptation, and appropriation of Arthurian themes and ideals in the twenty-first century.
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Contributor: Dorsey Armstrong
DORSEY ARMSTRONG is Professor of English at Purdue University.
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Contributor: K S Whetter
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.
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Contributor: Daniel Helbert
DANIEL HELBERT is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Languages at Young Harris College.
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Contributor: Dorsey Armstrong
DORSEY ARMSTRONG is Professor of English at Purdue University.
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Contributor: K S Whetter
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.
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Contributor: Raluca L Radulescu
Dr Raluca Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Bangor University
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Introduction
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1 Scota
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2 Bad Girls and the Britons: Ronwein, the Feminist Villain of De gestis Britonum
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3 Primitivism, Colonialism, and the Rhetoric of Topography: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Giants of Albion and Britain’s Chalk Giant Figures
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4 The Reception of the Legendary History of Britain
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5 What we leave behind: Legacy in Malory’s Characterisation
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6 ‘Both /And’: Engaging the Alliterative Morte Arthure
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7 Some Problems with the Critical Reception of Malory’s ‘Boke of Sir Trystram’: Quondam nec Futurus
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8 Malory in the Time of Pandemic
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9 How to Handle a Woman: Aaron Sorkin’s Camelot
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Epilogue: Painting Lions
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Contributors
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9781805437536
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Keywords for this book
Arthurian Studies; Geoffrey of Monmouth; Arthurian Women; Morte; Modern Arthuriana; Cinematic Arthuriana; British Origins; Giants; Landscape and Geography; Brut Tradition; Malory; Morte Darthur
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
