Synopses & Reviews
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.
Table of Contents
Rexque futurus: the anterior order in Le conte du graal / Donald Maddox -- Perlesvaus and the Perceval palimpsest / Norris J. Lacy -- Peredur son of Efrawg -- Brynley F. Roberts -- Dialogic transpositions: the grail hero wins a wife / Arthur Groos -- Parzival's knightly guilt / Wolfgang Mohr -- Parzival's failure (books V and VI) / Dennis Green -- Parzival and Gawan: hero and counterpart / Marianne Wynn -- The grail question in Wolfram and elsewhere / L.P. Johnson -- The saga of Parceval the knight / Marianne E. Kalinke -- Arthurian comedy: the simpleton-hero in Sir Perceval of Galles / Caroline D. Eckhardt -- Malory's Percivale: a case of competing genealogies / Dhira B. Mahoney -- "A very secondary position": Perceval in modern English and American literature / Alan Lupack -- Parsifal / Carl Dahlhaus -- Parsifal and Perceval on film: the reel life of a grail knight / Kevin J. Harty.