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Title The Passing of Arthur : new essays in Arthurian tradition / edited by Christopher Baswell and William Sharpe.

Publication Info. New York : Garland Pub., 1988.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  809.93351 B29    Check Shelf
Description xix, 316 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 781
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 781.
Note Papers originally presented at 8th Annual Barnard College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Barnard College, Nov. 15, 1986.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Life in La mort le roi Artu / Charles Méla -- The king's sin : the origins of the David-Arthur parallel / M. Victoria Guerin -- Desire, meaning, and the female reader : the problem in Chrétien's Charrete / Roberta L. Krueger -- Aspects of Arthur's death in Medieval illumination / M. Alison Stones -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : the passing of judgment / Marie Borroff -- Leaving Morgan aside : women, history, and revisionism in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Sheila Fisher -- The "syngne of surfet" and the surfeit of signs in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / R. Allen Shoaf -- The passing of Arthur in Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare : the avoidance of closure / A. Kent Hieatt.
Arthur, Argante, and the ideal vision : an exercise in speculation and parody / Judith Anderson -- "Beauties chace" : Arthur and women in The faerie queene / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- Tennyson and the passing of Arthur / John D. Rosenberg -- Ideological battleground : Tennyson, Morris, and the pastness of the past / Jonathan Freedman -- Victorian spellbinders : Arthurian women and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle / Carole Silver -- The last idyll : dozing in Avalon / William E. Fredeman.
Subject Arthurian romances -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
English literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Arthurian romances -- Adaptations -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
Kings and rulers in literature -- Congresses.
Middle Ages in literature -- Congresses.
Medievalism -- Congresses.
Indexed Term European literatures Arthurian romances - Critical studies
Added Author Baswell, Christopher.
Sharpe, William.
Barnard College.
Barnard College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (8th : 1986)
ISBN 0824080971 alkaline paper
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