Arthur of the Iberians - The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

Informationen zum Autor David Hook is a research fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford. Klappentext Though we think of King Arthur as archetypically British, the spread of the Arthurian legends was international, extending, among other places, to the Iberian Peninsula, where they had a deep influence and inspired such literary works as the chivalric romances parodied by Cervantes in Don Quixote . Iberia was also the conduit through which these legends travelled to the Americas. The Arthur of the Iberians explores not only medieval and Renaissance texts, but also modern Arthurian fiction, the global spread of the legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and the social impacts of Arthur and the Round Table through adoption of names and imitation of the practices narrated in the legends. Zusammenfassung This book studies the spread of Arthurian legends throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds in Iberia and overseas! and the influence of those legends in literature and society there from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.

Product details

• Authors: David Hook
• Assisted by: David Hook (Editor), Hook David (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2015
• EAN: 9781783162413
• ISBN: 978-1-78316-241-3
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages; University of Wales Press - Ar; Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Portugal, Spain, Arthur, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, of, Spanish, legends, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: general, Portuguese, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Arthurian, Worlds, Iberians