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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Arthuriana"”.
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
… Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the medieval Arthuriana. Ultimately, I argue that Spenser's careful selection of medieval tropes from Arthurian romances and Chaucer’s poetry expresses a skepticism about the myth of Tudor origins the poet is often credited with popularizing.
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Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
… referred to as a fraud, and scholars of early Arthuriana tend to dismiss material that shares commonalities with his work as being unrepresentative of the legend as it may have existed prior to Geoffrey’s influence. This dissertation examines the assumptions behind the charges of fraud and …
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Gendered magic and Arthurian sovereignty
… in medieval literature and the study of women in Arthuriana. In the insular Arthurian tradition, women take on two conflicting roles, safeguarding a dynastic succession, as the sovereign does, even as they threaten that very succession through outsized desire, as the tradition’s monsters do. My …
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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
… en prose in relation to Marvel comics and modern Arthuriana. Chapter 3 presents a reading of merveille and translatio in the Queste del Saint Graal and the Mort le roi Artu alongside the 2007 Marvel event Civil War. I read these works as reactive events which work to preserve the expanded universe …
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On a Quest for Manhood: Re-Imagining Medieval Masculinities and Male Maturation in Contemporary Arthurian Adaptations for Adolescents
… psychology, history, and literature. Research on Arthuriana for adolescents has been dominated by a focus on female subjectivities and empowerment. The purpose of the present study is to extend this line of inquiry by centring masculinities, while, importantly, understanding masculinity as …
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The Once and Future Traitor: Mordred from the Medieval to the Modern
Mordred is a villain with a reputation seemingly more deeply 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 …