Elizabeth Archibald & David F. Johnson 
Arthurian Literature XXXI [PDF ebook] 

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. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT


The studies collected in this volume demonstrate the enduring vitality of the Arthurian legend in a wide range of places, times and media. Chrétien’s
Conte du Graal features first in a study of the poem’s place in its Anglo-Norman context, followed by four essays on Malory’s
Morte Darthur. Two of these deal with the significance of wounds and wounding in Malory’s text, while the third explores the problematic aspects of sleep and the ‘slepynge knight’ in that same romance. The fourth considers ‘transformative female corpses’ as, quite literally, the embodiment of critical comment on the chivalric community in the
Morte Darthur. There follow two studies of the Arthurian legend captured in material objects: the first concerns the early twelfth-century images on a marble column from the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela, the second a twentieth-century tapestry created by Lady Trevelyan for the family home at Wallington Hall. The volume closes with an essay that brings us into the twenty-first century, with an assessment of
Kaamelott, an irreverent French Pythonesque television series.


Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert’s Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.


Contributors: Karen Cherewatuk, Tara Foster, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman, Megan Leitch, Roger Simpson, K.S. Whetter.

Tabella dei contenuti

Chrétien’s
Conte Du Graal between Myth and History – Irit Ruth Kleiman

Malory’s Thighs and Launcelot’s Buttock: Ignoble Wounds and Moral Transgression in the
Morte Darthur – Karen Cherewatuk

Weeping, Wounds, and Worshyp in Malory’s
Morte Darthur – Kevin S Whetter

Sleeping Knights and ‘Such Maner of Sorow-Makynge’: Affect, Ethics and Unconsciousness in Malory’s
Morte Darthur – Megan G. Leitch

Mirroring Masculinities: Transformative Female Corpses in Malory’s
Morte Darthur – Erin Kissick

Tristan and Iseult at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela – Joan Tasker Grimbert

Trevelyan Triptych: A Family and the Arthurian Legend – Roger Simpson

Kaamelott: A new French Arthurian Tradition – Tara Foster

Circa l’autore

MEGAN G. LEITCH is is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, Wales.