Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts
The ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author's personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual's place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a particular model was chosen and how its retelling depends on the modern author/auteur's misreading or rereading of medieval...
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The ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author's personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual's place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a particular model was chosen and how its retelling depends on the modern author/auteur's misreading or rereading of medieval chivalric conventions. This book complements numerous existing studies of medievalism in the Enlightenment and Victorian eras by examining more recent adaptations of the much-studied Arthurian romances, but primarily extends the discussion on the nature of revivals to other medieval or Renaissance chivalric texts, especially the Carolingian cycle epic. The collection includes not only literary retellings of medieval texts, but also some in different media, such as theatre and cinema.BooknewsTen essays explore why modern authors have taken certain medieval works as models for their literary, theatrical, or cinematic endeavors, and how the modern retellings reflect the misreading or rereading of the original. They shy away from the much-studied Arthurian material and focus more on the Carolingian cycle epic. Among the studies are in ; the Lady of Shalott in Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny, and Pynchon; and Spensor in Ralph Ellison's . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of contributorsPrefaceIntroduction11Desire and mythic intertext: refigurations of Tristan in Moderato cantabile112The Lady of Shalott: Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny and Pynchon253Stomping on the shoulders of giants: Thomas Berger's Arthur Rex394The unholy grail: recasting the Grail myth for an unbelieving age515Transforming the proud king transformed: Robert of Sicily676The modernist Orlando: Virginia Woolf's refashioning of Ariosto's Orlando furioso837Re-visible Spenser: the quest in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man998The reformulation of Orlando in Giuseppe Bonaviri's Novelle saracene1179From medieval realism to modern fantasy: Guerrino Meschino through the centuries13310Coming full circle: romance as romanzo in Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo147Index165
\ BooknewsTen essays explore why modern authors have taken certain medieval works as models for their literary, theatrical, or cinematic endeavors, and how the modern retellings reflect the misreading or rereading of the original. They shy away from the much-studied Arthurian material and focus more on the Carolingian cycle epic. Among the studies are in ; the Lady of Shalott in Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny, and Pynchon; and Spensor in Ralph Ellison's . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
