The Arthurian Way of Death - The English Tradition

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.

List of contents

Introduction - Karen Cherewatuk and Kevin S Whetter
'But here Geoffrey falls silent': Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie - Sian Echard
Mordred's Sons - Edward Donald Kennedy
Dying in Uncle Arthur's Arms and at His Hands - Karen Cherewatuk
'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and 'britned to noght': Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil - Michael W. Twomey
Love and Death in Arthurian Romance - Kevin S Whetter
Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript - Thomas Howard Crofts
The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur - Michael Wenthe
Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain - Lisa Robeson
Layde to the Colde Erthe: Death, Arthur's Knights, and Narrative Closure - Cory Rushton
Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above - Janina P Traxler
Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson's Idylls of the King - James Noble
Death as 'Neglect of Duty' in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur - Julie Nelson Couch
Death and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In Parenthesis - Samantha J. Rayner
Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur - Kevin J Harty

Summary

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Cherewatuk, Edward Donald Kennedy, James Noble, Cory Rushton, K.S. Whetter
• Assisted by: Karen Cherewatuk (Editor), Karen (Customer) Cherewatuk (Editor), K S (Royalty Account Whetter (Editor), K S (Royalty Account) Whetter (Editor), K. S. Whetter (Editor), K.S. Whetter (Editor), Kevin S (Royalty Account) Whetter (Editor), Kevin S. Whetter (Editor), Professor Kevin S (Royalty Account) Whetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9781843842088
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-208-8
• No. of pages: 278
• Weight: 750 g
• Illustrations: 4 b/w illus.
• Series: Arthurian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories