| Culture and the King: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend Contributor(s): Shichtman, Martin B. (Editor), Carley, James P. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791418634 ISBN-13: 9780791418635 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 306.4 |
| LCCN: 93010552 |
| Series: Suny Medieval Studies |
| Physical Information: 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book focuses on how and why various cultures have appropriated the story of King Arthur. It is about re-vision, how cultures alter inherited texts and are, in turn, changed by them, and it deals with the ways in which various cultures have empowered the Arthurian legend so that power might be derived from it. The authors suggest that the vitality of the Arthurian legend resides in its ability to be transformed and to transform, in its potential for appropriation and use. Culture and the King deals with issues of literature, history, art, politics, economics, gender study, and popular culture. It crosses the boundaries traditionally erected around these disciplines and addresses emerging critical methodologies concerned with the "poetics of culture." |