Arthurian women : a casebook / edited with an introduction by Thelma S. Fenster.

Other author Fenster, Thelma S.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Descriptionlxxvii, 344 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesGarland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1499
Arthurian characters and themes ; vol. 3
Arthurian characters and themes ; vol. 3. ^A363606
Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 1499. ^A654521
Contents Love, honor, and the exchange of women in Yvain: some remarks on the female reader / Roberta L. Krueger -- Rewriting men's stories: Enide's disruptive mouths / E. Jane Burns -- "Ez ist ir g'artet von mir": Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan und Isolde / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Female heroes, heroines, and counter-heroes: images of women in Arthurian tradition / Maureen Fries -- Leaving Morgan aside: women, history, and revisionism in Sir Gawain and the green knight / Sheila Fisher -- Enchanted ground: the feminine subtext in Malory / Geraldine Heng -- "Le Donne Antiche e'cavalieri": women in the Italian Arthurian tradition / Regina Psaki -- Fairy godmothers and fairy lovers / Laurence Harf-Lancner -- From the lake to the fountain: Lancelot and the fairy lover / Anne Berthelot -- Nymue, the chief lady of the lake in Malory's Le Morte dArthur / Sue Ellen Holbrook -- Arthur, Argante, and the ideal vision: an exercise in speculation and parody / Judith H. Anderson -- Iseult of Brittany: a new interpretation of Matthew Arnold's Tristram and Iseult / Barbara Fass Leavy -- In defense of Guenevere / Carole Silver -- Julia Margaret Cameron's photographic illustrations to Alfred Tennyson's The Idylls of the king / Joanne Lukitsh -- The Woman's eye: four modern Arthurian illustrators / Muriel Whitaker -- Looking at Elaine: Keats, Tennyson, and the directions of the poetic gaze / Constance W. Hassett and James Richardson -- The Figure of Guenevere in modern drama and fiction / Elisabeth Brewer -- Heterosexual plots and lesbian subtexts: toward a theory of lesbian narrative space in Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Mists of Avalon / Marilyn R. Farwell -- The First and last love: Morgan le Fay and Arthur / Raymond H. Thompson.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 95052563
ISBN0815306237 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN682.W6 A78 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold