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Cargando... The Arthurian Handbookpor Norris J. Lacy
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Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and much more. This critical survey of Arthurian history and legend, archaeology, literature, and the arts from the fifth century to the present provides an introduction for the general reader and a useful summary for the specialist. It offers both historical facts and key discussions on Arthurian subjects, from post-Roman Britain to the most recent novels and films. There is a lengthy glossary of Arthurian characters, motifs, and places, a chronology of major historical and literary items, a guide to pronunciation, and a full bibliography. What's new in the Second Edition:All the material has been revised and updated to 1996 since the original 1988 edition; The chapter on modern literature has been thoroughly revised, with new material on writings from France, Germany, England, and America; The coverage of King Arthur in the arts has entirely rewritten by one of the premier authorities in Arthurian studies. Brand-new geneological charts of the ancestry of Arthur and his family and the Grail kings and knights.; A fully up-to-date chronology; Many new illustrations. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The historical stuff is most interesting — both the sections trying to answer the question was Arthur real (which break it down into "well, what do you mean by Arthur" and "what do you mean by real"), and the chapters of tracking the legend/myth through the medieval period. Now I desperately want to track down the Icelandic Arthurian works.
The modern chapters, especially the decorative arts chapter, gets to be a drag; it basically turns into a catalog, as the authors don't make qualitative assessments of the works, and don't seem to have a background in schools of thought which talk back to the sources. (i.e., feminist, postcolonial, pomo in general, etc., etc.)
(Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone's tried to write a postcolonial Arthurian novel? I mean, there seems to be general agreement that the "original" setting of the story is in C.5 Britain, and I imagine there was a healthy amount of resentment among the native Britons as the Romans fucked off to the east; you could probably so something really interesting with that. Oh hell. NOT IT, guys, NOT IT.)
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