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Culture and the king: the social implications of the Arthurian legend: essays in honor of Valerie M. Lagorio
Shichtman, Martin B.  Carley, James P.  Lagorio, Valerie Marie 
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN10: 0791418634 ISBN13: 9780791418635 LCC: PN685 Edition: (CH : Acid-free)

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Includes bibliographical references and index. Valerie M. Lagorio : a tribute / Mildred Leake Day -- Introduction : the social implications of the Arthurian legend / Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley -- Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : subtle and political / David Chamberlain -- Lévi-Strauss in Camelot : interrupted communication in Arthurian feudal fictions / Donald Maddox -- Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes / Armel Diverres -- The knight as reader of Arthurian romance / Elspeth Kennedy -- The stanzaic Morte Arthur : the adaptation of a French romance for an English audience / Edward Donald Kennedy -- Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian propaganda at the court of Frederick II / Donald L. Hoffman -- A grave event : Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's bones / James P. Carley. The speaking knight : Sir Gawain and other animals / Felicity Riddy -- Politicizing the ineffable : the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's "Tale of the Sankgreal" / Martin B. Shichtman -- "The prowess of hands" : the psychology of alchemy in Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth" / Bonnie Wheeler -- How many roads to Camelot : the married knight in Malory / Maureen Fries -- Spenser for hire : Arthurian history as cultural capital in The faerie queene / Laurie A. Finke -- Arthur before and after the revolution : the Blome-Stansby edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains glory (1684) / David R. Carlson -- Reluctant redactor : William Dyce reads the legend / Debra N. Mancoff -- The snake in the woodpile : Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian prostitute / Rebecca Umland -- Feminism, homosexuality, and homophobia in The mists of Avalon / James Noble -- Camelot 3000 and the future of Arthur / Charles T. Wood.

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