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Author : Arthur Leslie Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Matter of Britain written by Arthur Leslie Morton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Byron Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249321
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Walter Map and the Matter of Britain written by Joshua Byron Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.
Author : Howard Wiseman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326411926
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Then Arthur Fought (colour) written by Howard Wiseman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Adderley
Publisher : Westbank Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780978984076
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Hawk and the Wolf written by Mark Adderley and published by Westbank Pub. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Island of the Mighty stands on the brink of war with the Roman Empire. Excalibur--the sword forged by the gods in the dawn of days and passed down through generations of High Kings--is lost. Can Britain stand without the help of the gods?
Author : T. H. White
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551999145
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Once & Future King written by T. H. White and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive modern take on the timeless tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round table. The legends of King Arthur date back to medieval Europe, and have become some of the dominant myths of Western culture. In The Once & Future King, T. H. White reinvents the story for a modern audience. The novel starts by introducing the reader to a young Arthur – just a child, and far from the King he will become – as he is raised by the wizard Merlyn, and moves on to chronicle his rise to Kingship, the affair between Guinevere and Lancelot, and the eventual destruction of the round table. The first section, released independently as The Sword in the Stone, was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Pictures. Penguin Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in e-book form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Author : Lavie Tidhar
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1250753473
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book By Force Alone written by Lavie Tidhar and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of Arthurian myth from World Fantasy Award-winner Lavie Tidhar, By Force Alone. Everyone thinks they know the story of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. The fact is they don't know sh*t. Arthur? An over-promoted gangster. Merlin? An eldritch parasite. Excalibur? A shady deal with a watery arms dealer. Britain? A clogged sewer that Rome abandoned just as soon as it could. A savage and cutting epic fantasy, equally poetic and profane, By Force Alone is a magical adventure and a subversive masterwork. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916301
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (163 download)
Download or read book King Arthur in America written by Alan Lupack and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Arthur in America analyzes the tremendous appeal of the Arthurian legends in America by examining the ways that Americans have found to democratize the Matter of Britain and to incorporate aspects of it not only into America's own mythologies but also into literature, film, social history, and popular culture.
Author : Pierre Michon
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300179065
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Winter Mythologies and Abbots written by Pierre Michon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in two volumes as Mythologies d'hiver, Editions Verdier, Lagrasse, 1997, and Abbes, copyright Editions Verdier, Lagrasse, 2002."
Author : Sørina Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947826595
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Inklings and King Arthur written by Sørina Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will King Arthur ever return to England? He already has.In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield brought hope to their times and our own in their Arthurian literature.Although studies of the "Oxford Inklings" abound, astonishingly enough, none has yet examined their great body of Arthurian work. Yet each of these major writers tackled serious and relevant questions about government, gender, violence, imperialism, secularism, and spirituality through their stories of the Quest for the Holy Grail. This rigorous and sophisticated volume studies does so for the first time.This serious and substantial volume addresses a complex subject that scholars have for too long overlooked. The contributors show how, in the legends of King Arthur, the Inklings found material not only for escape and consolation, but also, and more importantly, for exploring moral and spiritual questions of pressing contemporary concern.--Michael Ward, Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and co-editor of C.S. Lewis at Poets' CornerThis volume follows Arthurian leylines in geographies of myth, history, gender, and culture, uncovering Inklings lodestones and way markers throughout. A must read for students of the Inklings.--Aren Roukema, Birkbeck, University of London
Author : Joshua Byron Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812294165
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Walter Map and the Matter of Britain written by Joshua Byron Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satire, religious skepticism, ghost stories, and irrepressible wit? And why, though the attribution is spurious, is it not, in some ways, implausible? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer these and other questions in the first English-language monograph on Walter Map—and in so doing, he offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including King Arthur and his knights, first circulated in England. Smith contends that it was inventive clerics like Walter, and not traveling minstrels or professional translators, who popularized these stories. Smith examines Walter's only surviving work, the De nugis curialium, to demonstrate that it is not the disheveled text that scholars have imagined but rather five separate works in various stages of completion. This in turn provides new evidence to support his larger contention, that ecclesiastical networks of textual exchange played a major role in exporting Welsh literary material into England. Medieval readers incorrectly envisioned Walter withdrawing ancient Latin documents about the Holy Grail from a monastery and compiling them in order to compose the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. In this detail they were wrong, Smith acknowledges, but a model of literary transmission that is not vernacular and popular but Latinate and ecclesiastical demands our serious consideration.
Author : Geoffrey Ashe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805001150
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of King Arthur written by Geoffrey Ashe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1987-01-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers convincing proof that King Arthur existed by tracing the legend of King Arthur to its roots in the 12th century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470672374
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Arthurian Literature written by Helen Fulton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to contemporary culture. Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the most recent works Features an impressive range of well-known international contributors Examines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canon, including film and computer games Underscores an understanding of Arthurian literature as fundamental to western literary tradition
Author : Martin Wall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445677091
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Magical History of Britain written by Martin Wall and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to consider British history from a magical perspective, and how these arcane magical themes developed over time.
Author : David Hook
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783162422
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book The Arthur of the Iberians written by David Hook and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up-to-date Coverage of the scope and extent of the important tradition of Arthurian material in Iberian languages and of the modern scholarship on it. (= Wide-ranging bibliographical coverage and guide to both texts and research on them.) Written by Specialists in the different Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula (Portuguese, Catalan, Galician, Spanish and its dialects). (= Expert analysis of different traditions by leading scholars from Spain and the UK.) Wide-ranging Study not only of medieval and Renaissance literary texts, but also of modern Arthurian fiction, of the global spread of Arthurian legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and of the social impact of the legends through adoption of names of Arthurian characters and imitation of practices narrated in the legends. (=A comprehensive guide to both literary and social impact of Arthurian material in major world languages.)
Author : Walter Map
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Walter Map written by Walter Map and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843842629
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Perceforest written by and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly readable version of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances. Justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs", it is the subject ofrapidly increasing attention and research. The author of Perceforest draws on Alexander romances, Roman histories and medieval travel writing (not to mention oral tradition, as he gives, for example, the distinctly racy first written version of the Sleeping Beauty story), to create a remarkable prehistory of King Arthur's Britain. It begins with the arrival in Britain of Alexander the Great. His follower Perceforest, the first of Arthur's Greek ancestors, is made king of the island and finds it infested by the "evil clan" of Darnant the Enchanter. Magic plays a dominant part in the adventures which follow, as Perceforest ousts Darnant's clan despite their supernaturalpowers. He founds the knightly order of the "Franc Palais", an ideal of chivalric civilisation prefiguring the Round Table of Arthur and indeed that of Edward III. But that civilisation is, the author shows, all too fragile. The vast imaginative scope of Perceforest is matched by its variety of tone, ranging from tales of love and enchantment to bawdy comedy, from glamorous tournaments to unvarnished descriptions of the havoc wrought by war.And the author's surprising view of pagan gods and the coming of Christianity is as fascinating as the prominence he gives to women and his understanding of how the world of chivalry should work. Because of its enormous length - it runs to over a million words - Nigel Bryant has provided a version which gives a complete account of every episode, linking extensive passages of translation, to make a manageable and highly readable version (including the previously unpublished Books Five and Six), of this remarkable and largely unexplored work. Nigel Bryant has worked as a producer for BBC Radio 3 and as head of drama at Marlborough College. This is his fourth majortranslation of medieval Arthurian romance.
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393334155
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation) written by and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).
