The Grail legend in modern literature. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John B. Marino.
• Other Names: Marino, John B (John Barry), 1967-
• Contents: Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval -- The Welsh Peredur -- Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie -- The French Vulgate cycle Estoire del Saint Graal -- The Didot Perceval -- The continuations of Chrétien's Perceval -- Perlesvaus -- The French Vulgate cycle Queste del Saint Graal -- Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur -- The Celtic pagan origin theories -- The Christian origin theories -- The mystery cult fertility ritual theories -- The influence of the Celtic pagan and mystery cult fertility ritual -- Origin theories on modern British and American Arthurian fiction -- The Christian Grail in modern British and American Arthurian fiction -- The origin controversy and cultural conflict in modern British and American Grail fiction -- Modern syncretism and the Grail -- Battle for the Grail: whose legend is it anyway? -- Tennyson, White, and following writers' humanist views of the Grail -- Skepticism regarding the Grail visions -- Psychologizing the grail -- Mythologizing the Grail and making it metaphor -- Grail quest as metaphor in twentieth-century British and American Arthuriana -- The power of Glastonbury and the reality of the Grail -- Esoteric knowledge and the mystery cult of the Grail -- Secret societies and conspiracies -- Alternative spirituality, self-realization, and a Grail for the new age.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge Rochester, N.Y : D.S. Brewer
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 175 pages)
• Subjects: 809/.9337; Grail -- Legends -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Graal -- Légendes -- Histoire et critique; TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General; Grail -- Legends; Literature, Modern; Letterkunde; Engels; Amerikaans; Legenden; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846152702; 1846152704
• Related ISBNs: 1843840227
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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