1st Edition

Tristan and Isolde A Casebook

Edited By Joan Tasker Grimbert Copyright 2002
    638 Pages 30 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    638 Pages 30 Color Illustrations
    by Routledge

    A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film. The nineteen essays are a mix of new, new English, revised, and 'classic'. It contains an extensive bibliography.

    Preface, Norris J. Lacy
    Introduction, Joan Tasker Grimbert
    Acknowledgements
    Select Bibliography
    Tristan: The Celtic and Oriental Material Re-examined, W.J. McCann
    Love and the New Patriarchy: Tristan and Isolde, Leslie W. Rabine
    How Lovers Lie Together: Infidelity and Fictive Discourse in the Roman de Tristan, E. Jane Burns
    The Representation of the Lover's Death: Thomas' Tristan as Open Text, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
    The Glass Palace in the Folie d'Oxford, Jean-Charles Payen
    Tristan the Artist in Gottfried's Poem, W.T.H. Jackson
    Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan and the Arthurian Tradition. William C. McDonald
    La Parole amoureuse: Amorous Discourse in the Prose Tristan, Emmanuéle Baumgartner
    Radix Amoris: The Travola Ritonda and Its Response to Dante's Paolo and Francesca, Donald L. Hoffman
    Malory's Tale of Sir Tristram: Source and Setting Reconsidered, Dhira B. Mahoney
    Tristan in Medieval Art, Julia Walworth
    Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse: Visionary and Courtly Epic, Anthony H. Harrison
    That Most Beautiful of Dreams: Tristram and Isoud in British Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Christine Poulson
    Wagner's Tristan and Isolde: Opera as Symphonic Poem, Joseph Kerman
    Wagner and Decadence, Raymond Furness
    This Too You Ought to Read: Bédier's Roman de Tristan et Iseut, Edward J. Gallagher
    Tristram the Transcendent, Frederic Yves Carpenter
    Cocteau's Tristan and Iseut: A Case of Overmuch Respect, Stephen Maddux
    Tristan and Isolde in Modern Literature: L'éternal retour, Michael S. Batts

    Biography

    Joan Tasker Grimbert is Professor of French at Catholic University and author of many articles on medieval French literature and Arthurian romance.