Culture And The King
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Valerie M. Lagorio: A Tribute1Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend4Marie de France's Arthurian Lai: Subtle and Political15Levi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal Fictions35Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes54The Knight as Reader of Arthurian Romance70The Stanzaic Morte Arthur: The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English Audience91Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick II113A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones129The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other Animals149Politicizing the Ineffable: The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's "Tale of the Sankgreal"163"The Prowess of Hands": The Psychology of Alchemy in Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth"180How Many Roads to Camelot: The Married Knight in Malory196Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie Queene211Arthur Before and After the Revolution: The Blome-Stansby Edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains Glory (1684)234Reluctant Redactor: William Dyce Reads the Legend254The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian Prostitute274Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of Avalon288Camelot 3000 and the Future of Arthur297Index314
\ BooknewsExplores how various social groups have altered the Arthurian myth since the Middle Ages to empower it in such a way that they can then draw power from it. The 17 essays discuss such aspects as Levi-Strauss on communications, the knight as reader, Henry V, discovering graves, Spenser, the English Revolution, Tennyson, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and the comic book Camelot 3000. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
