The Lancelot-Grail Cycle Text and Transformations

William W. Kibler

ISBN 10: 0292743173 / ISBN 13: 9780292743175

Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, 1994

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Collectible First Edition. Fine Hardcover. Fine Mylar Protected Dust Jacket Condition: Clean Condition 247 pp. NO Writing at all. NO signatures. NOT a library copy. Like new copy with clean pristine text. Anthology of thirteen essays by different scholars on the Lancelot- Grail Vulgate. Beautiful copy of this classic Arthurian criticism. See our own Three Geese in Flight Book Scans of the book you will actually get. Selling Arthurian and Celtic Studies since 1977.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lancelot-Grail Cycle Text and Transformations
• Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292743173
• ISBN 13: 9780292743175
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Mylar Protected
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval and Early Medieval
  • Goddess
  • Arthurian Legend

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Synopsis

"The Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a seminal work in the development of the European medieval literatures right down to the Renaissance. For this reason, this volume will be compulsory reading for a wide audience interested in medieval matters, history, linguistics and belles lettres, and literary criticism."
--Carol R. Dover, assistant professor of French, Georgetown University

Composed in Old French between about 1220 and 1240, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a group of five prose romances centered on the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. It consists of an immense central core, the Lancelot Proper, introduced by The History of the Holy Grail and The Story of Merlin and concluded by The Quest for the Holy Grail and The Death of Arthur.

This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Exploring the cycle's evolution across the literatures of medieval France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and England, the authors take a variety of approaches that highlight a broad range of cultural, social, historical, and political concerns and offer a comparative and interdisciplinary vision of this great romance.

William W. Kibler is the Superior Oil-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor of Medieval Studies and a professor of French at the University of Texas at Austin.

Review

"The Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a seminal work in the development of the European medieval literatures right down to the Renaissance. For this reason, this volume will be compulsory reading for a wide audience interested in medieval matters, history, linguistics and belles lettres, and literary criticism." --Carol R. Dover, Georgetown University