The Arthurian Way of Death: The English Tradition
It is arguably the tragic end to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in England and America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors, texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and Malory's...
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The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.
Illustrations and Tables ixList of Contributors xiIntroduction K. S. Whetter Karen Cherewatuk 1Part I The Early Tradition in England1 'But here Geoffrey falls silent': Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie Siân Echard 172 Mordred's Sons Edward Donald Kennedy 333 Dying in Uncle Arthur's Arms and at His Hands Karen Cherewatuk 50Part II Middle English Romance and Malory4 'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and 'britned to no3t': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil Michael W. Twomey 735 Love and Death in Arthurian Romance K. S. Whetter 946 Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript Thomas H. Crofts 1157 The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur Michael Wenthe 1248 Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain Lisa Robeson 1369 'Layde to the Colde Erthe': Death, Arthur's Knights, and Narrative Closure Cory James Rushton 151Part III Medieval Influence and Modern Arthuriana10 Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above Janina P. Traxler 16911 Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson's Idylls of the King James Noble 19312 Death as 'Neglect of Duty' in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur Julie Nelson Couch 20613 Death and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In Parenthesis Samantha Rayner 22614 Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur Kevin J. Harty 241Index 249
