Busby / Thompson Gawain

A Casebook
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-136-78351-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 370 Seiten

Reihe: Arthurian Characters and Themes

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Busby, Keith

Thompson, Raymond H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editor's Preface

Introduction
RAYMOND H. THOMPSON AND KEITH BUSBY

Select Bibliography

1 Gawain: His Reputation, His Courtesy, and His Appearance in Chaucer's Squire's Tale
B.J. WHITING

2 Gwalchmei m. Gwyar
RACHEL BROMWICH

3 The Character of Gauvain in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes
WILLIAM A. NITZE

4 Gauvain and Fin' Amors in the Poems of Chrétien de Troyes
DOUGLAS KELLY

5 Arthurian Adventure or Quixotic "Struggle for Life"? A Reading of Some Gauvain Romances in the First Half of the Thirteenth Century
FRIEDRICH WOLFZETTEL

6 Diverging Traditions of Gauvain in Some of the Later Old French Verse Romances
KEITH BUSBY

7 The Formation of a Gauvain Cycle in Chantilly Manuscript 472
LORI WALTERS

8 The Character of Gauvain in the Thirteenth-Century Prose Romances
FANNI BOGDANOW

9 The Character of Gauvain in the Prose Tristan
KEITH BUSBY

10 Gawain Against Arthur: The Impact of a Mythological Pattern upon Arthurian Tradition in Accounts of the Birth of Gawain
RAYMOND H. THOMPSON

11 Crisis and Triumph in the World of Medieval Knighthood and Chivalry: Gawan in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
ALBRECHT CLASSEN

12 Gauvain as Lover in the Middle Dutch Verse Romance Walewein
BART BESAMUSCA

13 The Transformation of the Figure of Gauvain in Italy
MARIE-JOSÉ HEIJKANT

14 Middle English Arthurian Romance: The Repetition and Reputation of Gawain
PHILLIP C. BOARDMAN

15 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Poet's Treatment of the Hero and his Adventure
W.A. DAVENPORT

16 Gawain and Heroic Knighthood in Malory
BEVERLY KENNEDY

17 Gawain in Post-Medieval English Literature
RAYMOND H. THOMPSON

18 Sir Gawaine at Liberty Castle: Thomas Berger's Comic Didacticism in Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel
KLAUS P. JANOFSKY

19 Sir Gawain in Films
DAVID J. WILLIAMS

Proper Name Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Busby is Professor of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is translator of the standard Penguin edition of The Lais of Marie de France. He is also editor of Word and Image in Arthurian Literature (Garland, 1996).

Raymond H. Thompson is Professor Emeritus of English at Acadia University. He is author of The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction and co-editor of Merlin: A Casebook, also published by Routledge in the "Arthurian Characters and Themes" series.