New Directions in Arthurian Studies

Arthurian Studies

by Alan Lupack (Editor), Barbara Tepa Lupack (Contributor), Bonnie Wheeler (Contributor)

Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture.

Eleven essays by leading Arthurians lead off with an overview of the field suggesting directions that Arthurian studies must take to remain vital. Other essays contain innovative approaches, overviews of specific areas of Arthurian studies, and suggestions for new ways to approach Arthurian material; they range over Malory, Latin Arthurian literature, Gawain and the Green Knight, Merlin in the twenty-first century, Tennyson's Idylls, Arthur in African-American culture, current trends in criticism, Arthurian fiction, and Arthurian film.

Contributors: ROBERT BLANCH, DEREK BREWER, P.J.C. FIELD, SIAN ECHARD, PETER GOODRICH, KEVIN HARTY, NORRIS J. LACY, BARBARATEPA LUPACK, DAVID STAINES, RAYMOND THOMPSON, JULIAN WASSERMAN, BONNIE WHEELER.

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2002

About the author

Alan Lupack is Emeritus Director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library and the Koller-Collins Graduate English Center at the University of Rochester (Rochester, New York).