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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods and theoretical issues. TLSAppropriately for the journal's fortieth milestone, this volume of
Arthurian Literature offers an especially wide range of topics, from printers' modifications in early Arthurian books to a study of archetypal characters in several linguistic traditions. It begins with the winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, which has this year been awarded to an original and intriguing investigation of how and why Wynkyn de Worde (or various of his staff working under his direction) modified his 1529 printing of Sir Thomas Malory's
Le Morte Darthur. Thereafter, literary-critical explorations range across French, Welsh, and Middle English Arthurian literatures, including examinations of marriage in Chrétien's
Chevalier au Lion, Peredur in the Welsh Grail texts, fairies and cosmic providence in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the shifting degrees of agency possessed by Malory's Gwenyvere. The volume also features a lively reconsideration of the Arthurian tomb at Glastonbury from the point of view of material culture, and an examination of Arthur's hagiographical characterisation in Latin-Breton Saints Lives'. It closes with a survey of twentieth-century English-language retellings of Arthurian fiction that highlights female authors' many contributions to the genre.
List of contents
1. The Derek Brewer Essay Prize: A Variant Reading in Wynkyn de Worde's 1529 Edition of
Le Morte Darthur: The Question of Bors' Threnody -
Ashley Walchester2. The Arthur of the Bretons: Hagiographical Evidence for the Arthurian Legend in Medieval Brittany -
Jessica Shales3. Li Biaus Niais - an Arthurian Archetype? -
Corin Corley4. God Loves Marriage: Symbolism Beyond the Lion in the
Chevalier au lion (Yvain) - David S. King5. Why the Welsh Peredur is the Second-best Knight in the World:
Ystoryaeu Seint Greal and the Cyclic Impulse in Medieval Welsh Literature -
Erich Poppe and Claudia Zimmermann6. The Tomb of Arthur, Edward I and Eleanor of Castile: The European Dimension -
Paul Binski7. Immanence Front: Cosmic Redemption and Fairy Movers in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Arielle McKee8. Gwenyvere's Vocal Agency in Malory's
Morte Darthur - Mairi Stirling Hill9. Twentieth-Century Women Writers Re-Vision the Arthurian Narrative -
Nejwa Knight Al-Ghoraibi Details of, and annual call for submissions to, the Derek Brewer Prize
About the author
Edited by Megan G. Leitch and K.S. Whetter
Summary
"Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods and theoretical issues." TLS
