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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Arthurian romance"”.
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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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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Analysis
… -.night is a late fourteenth century metrical romance. It is acclaimed by many as the finest representative of Arthurian romance literature in English. The poem comes to us from one source only, a manuscript in the Cotton Collection in the British Museum, Nero A. X. The poet has contrived that …
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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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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… Sir Thomas Malory’s fifteenth-century work of Arthurian romance, Le Morte Darthur, underwent significant reevaluation, from being warily considered a trivial, morally problematic text to being hailed as a national epic with a central place in the English canon. This shift in Malory’s status …
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Romance Motifs and Ethics in Malory's 'Book of Sir Tristram'
… a close analysis of their presentation of romance motifs. The comparison draws on traditional treatments of these motifs and reveals that the authors of romance can incorporate stratified perspectives to voice ideological interpretations. Malory’s treatment of the moral discourse in the …