610 Pages
by
Routledge
610 Pages
by
Routledge
Whether it is a cup of plenty or the container of Christ's blood, the Holy Grail has always been a symbol of aspiration and longing. This volume surveys representations of the Holy Grail in literature, art, and film from the Middle Ages to the present day. A substantial introduction tracing the development of the legend is followed by a 200-item bibliography and twenty critical essays, seven of... Read more
Introduction, Dhira B. Mahoney * The Quest of Origins, Glenys Witchard Goetinck. * The Central Symbol of the Legend: The Grail as Vessel, Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz * Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Jean Frappier * Punishment in the Perlesvaus : The Theme of the Waste Land, A. J. Kennedy * Seeing the Grail: Prologomena to a Study of the Grail in the Queste and Estoire, Alison Stones * A Story of Interpretations: The Quest del Saint Graal as Metaliterature, Lawrence N. de Looze * Dying to Get to Sarras: Perceval's Sister and the Grail Quest, Janina Traxler * The Symbolism of the Grail in Wolfram von Eschenbach, Friedrich Ranke * The Truest and Holiest Tale: Malory's Transformation of La Quest del Saint Graal, Dhira B. Mahoney * Chivalric Nationalism and the Holy Grail in John Hardyng's Chronicle, Felicity Riddy * Scandals of Faith and Gender in Tennyson's Grail Poems, Linda Hughes * Pure Hearts and Clean Hands: The Victorians and the Grail, Debra N. Mancoff * From Logres to Carbonek: The Arthuriad of Charles Williams, Karl Heinz Gsller * Walker Percy's Grail, J. Donald Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley * The Grail in Modern Fiction: Sacred Symbol in a Secular Age, Raymond H. Thompson * Hollywood's New Weston: The Grail Myth in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and John Boorman's Excalibur, Martin Shichtman
Biography
Dhira B. Mahoney
"...surely one of the most valuable [works] to date, and the first I would recommend for library collections and to individuals interested in the high and (sometimes even un) holy history of the Grail."
"...excellent book... Very strongly recommended for upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- Choice
