Exploring Guinevere's search for authenticity in the Arthurian romances

the thousand-year quest for a mythic woman to find her historical embodiment in film and literature

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Exploring Guinevere's search for authenticity in the Arthurian romances

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Edwin Mellen Press
Language
English
Pages
247

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Guinevere's emergence
Courtly love
The reach of Arthurian and Grail legends
Myths connect us
Discussion: approach and methodology
The many faces of Guinevere
Myths are alive
Guinevere's world
Guinevere's mythic origins
Guinevere's myriad faces
Mythopoetic grounding
Guinevere serves soul
Joseph Campbell on myth and the hero's journey
Islamic, or Arabic, influences on Guinevere's journey
Sophia, mystical love, and-Guinevere
The heroine's journey
The language of myth
Guinevere's hero's journey
Guinevere the symbol
Guinevere: female wisdom
"The knight with the lion"-Guinevere's wasteland
"The knight of the cart" -call to adventure
Le morte d'Arthur-Guinevere's trials or ordeals
Idylls of the king-Guinevere's boon for society
Guinevere the woman
Bringing Guinevere forward in imagination
Mythological threads
Guineverian romances
Emma Jung on the myth's significance
Voices of women on the sufi path
Guinevere immortalized in artwork
Simone de Beauvoir on authenticity
Feminist voices
Parke Godwin's Guinevere
Guinevere's search for authenticity
Reflecting on Guinevere's yarn
Guinevere on stages and pages
Guinevere moves forward through mass media
Guinevere's mythology evolves
Moving Guinevere's myth forward
Spring: a time of change and renewal
Guinevere: born into a patriarchal world
The psyche sings of Guinevere
Freeing Guinevere
Looking at the Round Table
Guinevere speaks
Guinevere takes her seat at the Round Table.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-239) and index.

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Lewiston, N.Y
Other Titles
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809/.93351
Library of Congress
PN57.G85 R53 2012, PN57.G85R53 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 247 p.
Number of pages
247

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL30658700M
ISBN 10
0773426639
ISBN 13
9780773426634
LCCN
2012010822

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