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- English
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King Arthur's Modern Return
About this book
The Arthurian legend closes with a promise: On a distant day, when his country calls, the king will return. His lost realm will be regained, and his shattered dream of an ideal world will, at last, be realized. This collection of original essays explores the issue of return in the modern Arthurian legend. With an Introduction by noted scholar Raymond H. Thompson and 13 essays by authors from the fields of literature, art history, film history, and folklore, this collection reveals the flexibility of the legend. Just as the modern legend takes the form current to its generation, the myth of return generates a new legend with each telling. As these authors show, return can come in the form of a noble king or a Caribbean immigrant, with the mystery of an art theft or a dying boy's dream.
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Yes, you can access King Arthur's Modern Return by Debra N. Mancoff in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: Does One Good Return Deserve Another?
- 2 Three Ways of Coming Back: Folkloric Perspectives on Arthur's Return
- 3 Much Better Burnt: Reading Arthur's Return by the Light of Troy
- 4 "Come Again, and Thrice as Fair": Reading Tennyson's Beginning
- 5 Re-Vamping Vivien: Reinventing Myth as Victorian Icon
- 6 The Return of St. George 1850-1915
- 7 Class, Race, and Arthurian Narratives in San Francisco in the 1870s
- 8 The Figure of King Arthur in America
- 9 The Chivalric Order for Children: Arthur's Return in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century America
- 10 King Arthur Goes To War
- 11 Caribbean Galahad and the Secular Sarras
- 12 The Return to Camelot on Page and Screen: Chris Millard's "Four Diamonds"
- 13 The Aging of the King: Arthur and America in First Knight
- 14 Finding the Grail: Fascist Aesthetics and Mysterious Objects
- Notes on Contributors
- Index