Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts
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Modern Retellings of Chivalric Texts

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Published in 1999, the ten essays in this collection identify and examine reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval or Renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptations depend variously on an individual author's personal perspectives, the worldview of his or her society, and the individual's place in it. The various chapters therefore address issues such as why a particular model was chosen and how its retelling depends on the modern author/ auteur's misreading or rereading of medieval chivalric conventions.

This book compliments numerous existing studies of medievalism in the Enlightenment and Victorian eras by examining more recent adaptations of the much studied Arthurian romances, but primarily extends the discussion on the nature of revivals to other medieval or Renaissance chivalric texts, especially the Carolingian cycle epic. The collection includes not only literary retellings of medieval texts, but also some in different media, such as theatre and cinema.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9780429830693
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Sociologie

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Desire and mythic intertext: refigurations of Tristan in Moderato cantabile
  10. 2 The Lady of Shalott: Malory, Tennyson, Zelazny and Pynchon
  11. 3 Stomping on the shoulders of giants: Thomas Berger’s Arthur Rex
  12. 4 The unholy grail: recasting the Grail myth for an unbelieving age
  13. 5 Transforming the proud king transformed: Robert of Sicily
  14. 6 The modernist Orlando: Virginia Woolf’s refashioning of Ariosto’s Orlando furioso
  15. 7 Re-visible Spenser: the quest in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
  16. 8 The reformulation of Orlando in Giuseppe Bonaviri’s Novelle saracene
  17. 9 From medieval realism to modern fantasy: Guerrino Meschino through the centuries
  18. 10 Coming full circle: romance as romanzo in Elsa Morante’s L’isola di Arturo
  19. Index