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The Arthur of the Iberians David Hook

The Arthur of the Iberians By David Hook

The Arthur of the Iberians by David Hook


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This book studies the spread of Arthurian legends throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking worlds in Iberia and overseas, and the influence of those legends in literature and society there from the twelfth to the twenty-first century.

The Arthur of the Iberians Summary

The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds by David Hook

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well as examining the specifically Arthurian texts themselves, it traces the continued influence of the medieval Arthurian material and its impact on the society, literature and culture of the Golden Age and beyond, including its presence in Don Quixote, the influential Spanish Arthurian-inspired romance Amadis de Gaula, and in Spanish ballads. Such was its influence that we find an indigenous American woman called Iseo (Iseult); and an Arthurian story appeared in an indigenous language of the Philippines, Tagalog, as late as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

About David Hook

Academic market: students, graduates, academic staff, researchers; Arthurian enthusiasts

Table of Contents

Introduction I Arthurian Material in Iberia Paloma Gracia II The Surviving Peninsular Arthurian Witnesses: A Description and an Analysis Jose Manuel Lucia Megias III Arthurian Literature in Portugal Santiago Gutierrez Garcia IV The Matiere de Bretagne in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth Century Pilar Lorenzo Gradin V The Matiere de Bretagne in the Corona de Aragon Lourdes Soriano Robles VI The Matter of Britain and Historical Reality Carlos Alvar VII The Post-Vulgate Cycle in the Iberian Peninsula Paloma Gracia VIII The Hispanic Versions of the Lancelot en prose: Lanzarote del Lago and Lancalot Antonio Contreras IX The Iberian Tristan Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance Maria Luzdivina Cuesta Torre X Amadis de Gaula Rafael Ramos XI Arthur Goes Global: Arthurian Material in Hispanic and Portuguese America and Asia David Hook XII The Contemporary Return of the Matter of Britain to Iberian Letters (XIXth to XXth Centuries) Juan Miguel Zarandona

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NPB9781783162413
9781783162413
1783162414
The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds by David Hook
New
Hardback
University of Wales Press
2015-06-15
576
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