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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Arthurian literature"”.
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Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin and Evolution of Morgan le Fay
<p>The world of Arthurian legend is one steeped in mythology and magic, reflecting ancient Celtic traditions and tales that long preceded it. Such tales often feature perplexing and seemingly contradictory characters who drive complex plotlines and frequently challenge primary figures, greatly …
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The Goddess and Guinevere
… as her representative, evident throughout Arthurian literature.
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To Reach the Unreachable Stars: Reexamining the Shared Arthurian Vision of C. S. Lewis's Science Fiction Trilogy and Raymond Chandler's Marlowe Novels
… pairing, the ways in which they both borrow from Arthurian literature and use the myth to speak to their cultural moment are strikingly similar. Following T. S. Eliot’s use of the Grail quest in <em>The Waste Land</em> (which set a standard for the use of such material in Modern literature), these …
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Rape and Male Identity in Arthurian Romance, Chrétien de Troyes to Marion Zimmer Bradley
… work explores the evolution of troped rape in Arthurian literature from the 12th century to modern day. I focus on three works: Chrétien de Troyes Erec et Enide, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon. In each, I examine the five functions of troped …
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'Of his breast noble poets shall eat; of his blood shall men be drunk': nationalism, literature, and Arthurian 'things' in medieval and Early Modern Britain
… the intersection of medieval and Early Modern Arthurian literature, English and British nationalism, and new materialism – specifically thing theory and object-oriented ontology. Arthur was not a true historical figure, yet throughout much of British history his cultural and propagandist value …
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A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612)
<p>This dissertation studies the use of the Arthurian myth from the fifteenth through early seventeenth centuries, as a narrative that connected a set of political principles for the unification of Britain and its imperial expansion. Joining other competing political myths in the British …
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‘Amore Captus:’ Turning Bedtricks in the Arthurian Canon
… the past 1,400 years, the many retellings of Arthurian legend have served as a lens by which readers have been able to explore issues of power, ethics, and identity. The Arthurian canon has been appropriated by different generations, cultures, and ideological groups over the centuries to …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… in three chapters. The first part reads Arthurian romance alongside comics theory and Marvel comics. Collaborative interests generate serialised content, forming an expanded universe over decades. Chapter 1 pursues a formal analysis of interlace across the Lancelot-Grail, through a close …
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The Once and Future Traitor: Mordred from the Medieval to the Modern
… tainted with each century of reworking of the Arthurian legend. Arthurian culture is so extensive and varied, however, that this generalization can only be reductive. This study takes a long view of the writing of Mordred from the medieval to the present day. Its focus on a single, narratively …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… in the text as created and limited by the Arthurian literary tradition, but a significant portion of the nameless female characters challenge these assumptions. Malory uses many of these anonymous women to perform actions which are often attributed to male characters in medieval literature, …