Karen Cherewatuk, K S Whetter, Cory James Rushton, Edward Donald Kennedy, James Noble

The Arthurian Way of Death

The English Tradition
Herausgeber: Cherewatuk, Karen; Whetter, K S

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Produktbeschreibung

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781843842088
• ISBN-10: 1843842084
• Artikelnr.: 26901452

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Karen Cherewatuk and Kevin S Whetter 'But here Geoffrey
falls silent': Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie - Sian
Echard Mordred's Sons - Edward Donald Kennedy Dying in Uncle Arthur's Arms
and at His Hands - Karen Cherewatuk 'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and
'britned to noght': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil -
Michael W. Twomey Love and Death in Arthurian Romance - Kevin S Whetter
Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester
Manuscript - Thomas Howard Crofts The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur
- Michael Wenthe Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at
Salisbury Plain - Lisa Robeson Layde to the Colde Erthe: Death, Arthur's
Knights, and Narrative Closure - Cory Rushton Arthurian Exits: Alone,
Together, or None of the Above - Janina P Traxler Woman as Agent of Death
in Tennyson's Idylls of the King - James Noble Death as 'Neglect of Duty'
in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur - Julie
Nelson Couch Death and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In Parenthesis
- Samantha J. Rayner Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic
Depictions of the Death of Arthur - Kevin J Harty