Arthurian Literature XIII: 13 - Hardcover

Une collection d'articles de grand interet. ETUDES ANGLAISESAn indispensable componenet of any historical or Arthurian library. NOTES AND QUERIES

The latest volume of 'Arthurian Literature' includes an edition and study of the widely disseminated Latin translation of 'Des Grantz Geanz'(`De origine gigantum') by James Carley and Julia Crick, with a feminist reading of the poem by Lesley Johnson. Claude Luttrell writes on Chrétien's 'Cligès'; Corinne Saunders explores the issue of rape in Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Tale', Neil Wright offers a reconstruction of the Arthurian epitaph in Royal 20 B.XV, Frank Brandsma discusses the treatment of simultaneity in 'Yvain, Chanson de Roland' and a section of the 'Lancelot en prose', Julia Crick updates the progress on the manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and A.H.W. Smith contributes a supplement to thebibliography of twentieth-century Arthurian literature begun in earlier volumes.