Arthurian Literature XXXVI: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance
ISBN: 9781800101302
Platform/Publisher: Cambridge Core / Boydell & Brewer
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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

Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur ; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein and Gregorius ; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A ; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's Perceval ; spatial significance in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot ; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur ; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.

Leitch Megan G :

MEGAN G. LEITCH is is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, Wales.Whetter Kevin S :

K. S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.


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