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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999. This first full-length study focuses exclusively on American re-interpretations of Arthuriana. "Commendably wide researches." Times Literary Supplement.
Full Description
Aspects of the Arthurian legends have been incorporated into America's own mythologies and its literature, film, social history and popular culture. This study focuses on American reinterpretations and offers detailed treatments of major authors traditionally associated with the Arthurian legends, including James Russell Lowell, Mark Twain, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T.S. Eliot and John Steinbeck. It also explores the important use of Arthurian material by authors not usually considered in an Arthurian context (Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner) and by lesser-known writers. Among the topics addressed in the chronological survey are the beginnings of American Arthurian literature and the vastly different reactions to Tennyson's lofty idealism, the Lost Generation novelists, and reinterpretations of Arthurian tradition in the works of contemporary writers.
Contents
Arthurian literature in America before Twain; reaction to Tennyson - parody; reaction to Tennyson - visions of courageous achievement; from Twain to the Twenties; beyond "The Waste Land" - Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner; Steinbeck and the Arthurian legend; contemporary novelists; the Arthurian tradition and American popular culture.
