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The Arthurian Way of Death
The English Tradition
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Edited by:
Karen Cherewatuk
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With contributions by:
Cory James Rushton
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.
It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in Englandand America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory's Morte Darthur; Tennyson's Idylls, Pyle's retelling of the myth for American children, David Jones, T.H. White, Donald Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk, Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, MichaelWenthe, Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble, Julie Nelson Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty
It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in Englandand America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory's Morte Darthur; Tennyson's Idylls, Pyle's retelling of the myth for American children, David Jones, T.H. White, Donald Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk, Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, MichaelWenthe, Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble, Julie Nelson Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty
Author / Editor information
Contributor: K S Whetter
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.
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Contributor: Cory James Rushton
CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.
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Contributor: K S Whetter
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.
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Contributor: Thomas H. Crofts
THOMAS H. CROFTS is Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he also co-directs the Minor in Classical and Medieval Studies.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Illustrations and Tables
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List of Contributors
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Introduction
1 - PART I The Early Tradition in England
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1 ‘But here Geoffrey falls silent’: Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie
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2 Mordred’s Sons
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3 Dying in Uncle Arthur’s Arms and at His Hands
50 - PART II Middle English Romance and Malory
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4 ‘Hadet with an aluisch mon’ and ‘britned to noȝt’: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil
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5 Love and Death in Arthurian Romance
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6 Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript
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7 The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur
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8 Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain
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9 ‘Layde to the Colde Erthe’: Death, Arthur’s Knights, and Narrative Closure
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10 Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above
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11 Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King
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12 Death as ‘Neglect of Duty’ in Howard Pyle’s The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
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13 Death and the ‘grimly voice’ in David Jones’s In Parenthesis
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14 Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Arthurian Legend; Death; Dying; Middle Ages; English Tradition; Tragic End; Kingdom; Myth; Ideological Tensions; Collective Memory
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
