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Gawain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

Gawain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-11-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Gawain: A Casebook is a collection of 12-15 classic and original essays on the hero of Arthurian legend that investigates the figure of Gawain as he appears in major medieval traditions, as well as modern literature and film. As with other volumes in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series, this casebook includes an extended introduction examining the character's evolution from the earliest tales to his most recent appearances in popular culture, as well as an extensive annotated bibliography. Students, scholars, and anyone interested in medieval legend will find a wealth of insight into the mystery of this most poignant and perplexing of Arthurian heroes.

Arthurian Women
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

Arthurian Women

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Federal advisory committees
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1444

Federal advisory committees

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 197?
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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New Directions in Arthurian Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

New Directions in Arthurian Studies

Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture. Eleven essays by leading Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting directions that Arthurian studies must take to remain vital. Other essays contain innovative approaches, overviews of specific areas of Arthurian studies, and suggestions for new ways to approach Arthurian material; they range over Malory, Latin Arthurian literature, Gawain and the Green Knight, Merlin in the twenty-first century, Tennyson's Idylls, Arthur in African-American culture, current trends in criticism, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film. Contributors: ROBERT BLANCH, DEREK BREWER, P.J.C. FIELD, SIAN ECHARD, PETER GOODRICH, KEVIN HARTY, NORRIS J. LACY, BARBARATEPA LUPACK, DAVID STAINES, RAYMOND THOMPSON, JULIAN WASSERMAN, BONNIE WHEELER.

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, th...

Hearings
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2838

Hearings

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Arthurian Bibliography IV
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

Arthurian Bibliography IV

This fourth volume of entries, culled in the main from BBSIA, covers the years 1933 to 1998 inclusive. The cumulative volumes of the Bibliography offer an exhaustive author and title database of the burgeoning scholarship in this field.

Public Health Service Publication
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 748

Public Health Service Publication

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Merlin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 882

Merlin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-06-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book deals with all aspects of the Merlin legend, from its origins to its expression in medieval and modern literature, film, and popular culture. Following an extended introduction and a full bibliography, the volume offers nearly twenty essays--some newly commissioned for this volume, others selected from the most important scholarly and critical studies of Merlin and his role. Two of the reprinted essays are translated into English for the first time.