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    The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
    Text and Transformations

    William W. Kibler (Edited by)

    9780292722521

    Paperback / softback, published 15 December 1994

    255 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.454 kg

    Composed in Old French between about 1220 and 1240, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a group of five prose romances centered on the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. It consists of an immense central core, the Lancelot Proper, introduced by The History of the Holy Grail and The Story of Merlin and concluded by The Quest for the Holy Grail and The Death of Arthur.

    This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Exploring the cycle's evolution across the literatures of medieval France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and England, the authors take a variety of approaches that highlight a broad range of cultural, social, historical, and political concerns and offer a comparative and interdisciplinary vision of this great romance.

    • Introduction. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations (William W. Kibler)
    • 1. From Lancelot to Galahad: The Stakes of Filiation (EmmanuÈ
      le Baumgartner)
    • 2. Variations in the Patterns of Interlace in the Lancelot-Grail (Elspeth Kennedy)
    • 3. Age and the Ages of Life in the Prose Lancelot (Douglas Kelly)
    • 4. The Narration of Youthful Exploits in the Prose Lancelot (FranÇ
      ois Suard)
    • 5. The Mort Artu and Cyclic Closure (Norris J. Lacy)
    • 6. Autobiography and History in the Vulgate Estoire and in the Prose Merlin (Rupert T. Pickens)
    • 7. “
      Or dist li contes”
      : Narrative Interventions and the Implied Audience in the Estoire del Saint Graal (Carol Chase)
    • 8. CitÉ
       or Vile? A Lexical Problem in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Carleton W. Carroll)
    • 9. Ladies Don’
      t Wear Braies: Underwear and Outerwear in the French Prose Lancelot (E. Jane Burns)
    • 10. The Acclimatization of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Spain and Portugal (Harvey L. Sharrer)
    • 11. An Italian Reaction to the French Prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Matteo Maria Boiardo and the Knight’
      s Quest for Identity (Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco)
    • 12. The Idea of a Cycle: Malory, the Lancelot-Grail, and the Prose Tristan (James I. Wimsatt)
    • 13. Lancelot’
      s Vocation: Traitor Saint (E. Kay Harris)
    • Index
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