Bøker av James P. Carley

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."

The vogue in Victorian times for matters Arthurian owes much to the poetry of Arnold and Morris. Unlike Tennyson, however, neither of these poets is now remembered primarily for his Arthurian poems. Thus no modern anthology is devoted to this area of their output, a gap this book seeks to rectify.

Latest work on Arthur by respected scholars.