Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a910870
Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan
Abstract: This article explores the depiction of Gawain in The Green Knight (2021). Despite having cast Dev Patel in the starring role, the film avoids any substantive discussion of race in Camelot. By trading in optical diversity alone, it deploys BIPOC bodies without ever telling their stories. (TDN)
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a910873
Reviewed by: The Arthurian World ed. by Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, and Renée Ward Dan Nastali victoria coldham-fussell, miriam edlich-muth, and renée ward, eds., The Arthurian World. Routledge Worlds. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xxi, 579. isbn: 978–0–36–17270–1. $200. With a title like The Arthurian World and a contents-list of thirty-four articles by an international assembly of editors and contributors, including several prominent names, this collection would seem to offer the latest critical thought in Arthurian studies. A closer look at the individual subjects, however, reveals that it is not exactly a representative sampling of current scholarship. As the editors indicate in a lengthy and informative introduction, the actual scope looks 'beyond the canonical British and French Arthurian traditions of the medieval period to include works that extend the margins of the Arthurian mainstream based on their medium, their language, or the period in which they were written' (p. 1). The articles that follow certainly do that. The book consists of four thematic parts, the first of which, 'The World of Arthur in the British Isles,' begins conventionally enough with two concise essays on the early historical records and ancient Welsh sources by P.J.C. Field and Helen Fulton respectively, both articles having a bearing on the historicity of Arthur. Then unconventionally, perhaps, but in keeping with the promise of the introduction, the studies which follow venture into such less-explored areas of British Arthuriana as the Nine Worthies tradition; the death of Elizabeth I and The Misfortunes of Arthur; romance elements in The Tempest; and leaping forward chronologically, Renée Ward's piece on the sanitized Arthurian stories of the Victorian writer Eleanor Louisa Hervey. The section concludes by expanding the thematic margin of the British Isles to include a well-researched piece by Virginia Blanton on Guinevere in the plays of Richard Hovey, an American poet of the 1890s. The second section, 'The European World of Arthur,' takes as topics additional lesser-known works: the Byelorussian Tristan; The Old Knight, the only medieval Greek Arthurian work; the Melekh Artus, a thriteenth-century Hebrew romance; Viduvilt, a sixteenth-century Yiddish romance; and three fifteenth-century German public entertainments. The scholarly mainstream is not entirely ignored in this section. Nicola Morato provides a guide through the transformations of the Guiron le Courtois cycle over time and by country, and to conclude this part, a study by Martha Claire Baldon explores the relationship of the physical sense of sight to spiritual perceptions of the Holy Grail in the Lancelot-Grail and Perlesvaus. The third section, 'The Material World of Arthur,' begins with Alison Stones's overview of illustrated manuscripts from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries, and while manuscripts are 'material' enough, there follows an array of topics which
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a903766
C. Abram
‘intended’ to promote the beneficial quality of noble counsel (p. 137). Sullivan is doubtless right in arguing that the changes made in this adaptation of Hartmann’s Iwein must be connected to fifteenth-century (nostalgic, conservative) views of noble counsel, knight-on-knight combat, and the nature of the marital contract, especially in light of the fact that the Book of Adventures was compiled for Duke Albrecht. My one quibble with this interpretive framework is that these astute observations are too often couched in the language of authorial intention, an approach which some readers may find distracting. But this is a minor quibble when juxtaposed with the obvious expertise in Iwein/ Yvain and Iban scholarship that Sullivan demonstrates throughout this welcome contribution to Arthurian Studies.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a903758
Christopher Jensen
Abstract:Launcelot's embodied expression of grief at Gwenyvere's funeral is condemned by the Bishop in Malory's Morte, but the ideological basis for this condemnation is obscure. Linguistic, cultural, and doctrinal analysis provide useful interpretive context, but a close comparison to the Stanzaic Morte Arthur reveals more concrete evidence of Malory's amplification of the earlier poem and characteristic affinity for the secular.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a903767
S. Manning
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a903763
Meg Roland
Abstract:Through the person of King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory articulates an emotional response not experienced by one, but as a form of 'social grief,' a grief formed outside the normative bounds and emotional regime of the Arthurian community. Similar to Malory's evocation of the despair of the Arthurian court, we also grieve the loss of civil society, replaced by the shadow side of the American ideals of individual freedom and constitutional rights.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a903757
Thomas Crofts
Abstract:Concentrating on the first narrative section of the poem, which encompasses Tristrem's birth and the death of his parents, this article observes the elegiac notes struck by the Tristrem-poet early in the tale, and the epic voicing of lament punctuating the poem's first section and initiating Sir Tristrem's central narrative. A careful reading shows that the Middle English poet not only skillfully adapted his source-text (Thomas of Britain's Tristran) to the demands of oral performance, but also retained, even sharpened, the tragic capability of the 'courtly' Matter of Tristan.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/art.2023.a903755
Siân Echard
Abstract:Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae is structured around the sequence of British rulers. This structure inevitably means that the text is punctuated by death: an old ruler dies, and another succeeds. The reception of Arthur's death varies across time and manuscript witnesses. This article traces some of the ways that Arthur's death (or his departure) is marked in the manuscript tradition. Both the original design of a manuscript and interventions by later readers can shift how the transition from Arthur's reign is presented and received.
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