bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The ensemble domesticated: Mapping issues of autonomy and power in performing arts projects in schools
Authors: Kitchen Jennifer
Published: April 2015

This article, originally presented at Discourse, Power and Resistance in April 2014, draws on my current research, within the national Shakespeare Schools’ Festival programme, exploring emerging issues of autonomy and power. Theatre education projects have been positioned as an emancipatory endeavour, often drawing on the rhetoric of ‘the ensemble’ as a pedagogic approach. Yet, as I will argue here, notions of this approach’s emancipatory potential does not always sit easily within existing normative education structures. Recent education resources, such as the Education Endowment Fund’s Teaching and Learning Toolkit, suggest arts education projects can be understood as finite ‘interventions’ with a known set of outcomes. This, I want to argue, ‘domesticates’ the ensemble, flattening and masking the complexity of this approach. I suggest therefore that an ensemble-based project such as Shakespeare Schools’ Festival could be more usefully seen as a pedagogic space, which is populated, activated and made sense of in a myriad of potential ways by its participants in their particular contexts.
FATORES CONDICIONANTES DA FORMAÇÃO DE UMA REDE HORIZONTAL ENTRE FRANQUEADAS
Authors: Marquezan Luiz Henrique Figueira , Souza Marcos Antonio de
Published: April 2015

O objetivo do artigo é identificar os fatores condicionantes da formação de uma rede horizontal entre franqueadas para atividades de compras. Trata-se de um estudo de caso único, desenvolvido com abordagens descritiva e qualitativa, realizado no segundo semestre de 2013. Foram pesquisados documentos de 2011 a 2013, observadas rotinas da operacionalização e entrevistados três integrantes da rede. Os principais resultados indicam que ambiente de franquias contribuiu para aproximação dos participantes da rede, pelo conhecimento prévio e atuação conjunta, reduzindo incertezas e promovendo maior confiança. No entanto, eleva os riscos pelo aumento da confiança, tais como a não previsão do tratamento de litígios entre os participantes e os fornecedores e desistências de integrantes. Também limita a expansão da rede para categorias de compras e entrada de novos parceiros. O ambiente é restrito entre as empresas da franquia e os materiais primários são regulados pela franqueadora, impedindo ganhos com esses fatores.
CARTEIRAS FORMADAS POR MEIO DE VARIÁVEIS FUNDAMENTALISTAS APRESENTAM BOM DESEMPENHO DE MERCADO?
Authors: Guimarães Júnior Francisco Roberto Farias , Carmona Charles Ulises de Montreuil , Guimarães Luciana Gondim de Almeida
Published: April 2015

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi verificar se carteiras formadas por meio de variáveis fundamentalistas apresentam um bom desempenho de mercado à luz do Índice de Sharpe Generalizado. Como método de análise, coletaram-se dados das bolsas de valores da Argentina, Brasil, Chile e México. As carteiras foram formadas por meio da hierarquização dos ativos através das notas obtidas em um modelo de ponderação de fatores, cujos fatores foram as variáveis: Q de Tobin, Beta, Alavancagem Financeira, Preço/Lucro, Preço/Vendas. Nos resultados, constataram-se que as carteiras formadas por meio das variáveis fundamentalistas apresentaram um bom desempenho em 28,72% das ocorrências, quando comparadas às proxies de mercado. Para estudos futuros, sugere-se: utilizar modelos lineares generalizados ao invés da regressão múltipla no cálculo dos pesos dos fatores; utilizar outras variáveis fundamentalistas; ou ainda, verificar se carteiras formadas por meio de variáveis fundamentalistas apresentam um desempenho melhor que o das carteiras formadas pelo modelo de Markowitz.
REVISÃO SISTEMÁTICA E SUA POTENCIAL CONTRIBUIÇÃO EM “NEGÓCIOS, GERENCIAMENTO E CONTABILIDADE”
Authors: Igarashi Wagner , Corrêa Igarashi Deisy Cristina , Borges Bárbara Johann
Published: April 2015

A revisão sistemática apresenta contribuição metodológica para estudos organizacionais, aplicando métodos explícitos e sistematizados de busca gerando um processo de pesquisa replicável e transparente. Devido ao rigor, precisão e transparência que a técnica pode gerar às pesquisas em ciências sociais aplicadas, o estudo tem como objetivo analisar a evolução e o crescimento da utilização da técnica de revisão sistemática no contexto internacional, mais especificamente no agrupamento de “negócios, gerenciamento e contabilidade”. Para tal, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática em relação ao termo “systematic review” na base Scopus, utilizando o filtro “Business, Management and Accounting”. Como resultado foi identificado o crescimento do uso desta técnica no contexto internacional, sendo os EUA o país com o maior número de publicações. Além disso, observou-se que os autores pesquisados afirmam que a técnica traz contribuições pelo caráter retrospectivo, avaliação crítica, síntese de resultados, minimização de definições conflitantes relacionadas às investigações de determinados temas.
Developing a Wireline-Log Database and a Basis for Determining Reservoir Porosity
Authors: Kane Jeffrey A. , Jennings James W.
Published: April 2015

We present the procedures used to develop an accurate wireline-log database for the Fullerton Clear Fork field reservoir. We first review the borehole logging history of the field then discuss the assembly and quality checking of the log data and normalization of neutron-porosity logs, and calibration to core porosity. The procedures documented here deviate somewhat from the norm in that the assembly of the database and quality control of data occurred concurrent with data interpretation. Because of the complex nature of the field data, traditional log-normalization methods were not adequate. A method of normalization is described that is a modification of traditional methods, which overcomes the unique problems of the Fullerton Clear Fork reservoir.
Calculation of Permeability and Initial Water Saturations from Wireline Logs in a Mature Carbonate Reservoir
Authors: Jerry Lucia F. , Kane Jeffrey A.
Published: April 2015

Estimating permeability from wireline logs has been difficult historically because of the large petrophysical heterogeneity typical of carbonate rocks. A simple relationship between porosity and permeability has not been observed, only between porosity, permeability, and pore size. In Clear Fork carbonates at Fullerton field, pore size is related to rock fabrics. Permeability was calcu-lated for each well using porosity from wireline logs and rock-fabric information from stratigraphic relationships. Permeability profiles, calculated using a global transform, compare well with core permeability values. An exception is in the lower section of the reservoir (Wichita Formation), where karst fabrics are present, suggesting a touching-vug pore system.

Initial water saturation is required for estimating original oil in place and for flow simulation studies. Because most of the original wells in this field had very old log suites and the new wells were drilled after the advent of waterflooding, calculation of initial water saturation from wireline logs for most of these wells was not feasible. In this study, initial water saturations were calculated using capillary-pressure models generated for each petrophysical rock-fabric class. A generic rock-fabric model for class 1 fabrics was used, and new rock-fabric models were developed for class 2 and class 3 fabrics using the Thomeer approach. Water saturations calculated from capillary-pressure models show good agreement to saturations calculated using the Archie equation from wireline logs in intervals thought to be unflooded. The success of the rock-fabric-based method in calculating permeability and saturation in the Fullerton Clear Fork reservoir illustrates how valuable this technique can be in defining the petrophysical properties in carbonate reservoirs.
Construction and Analysis of Three-Dimensional Seismic Porosity Inversion Models
Authors: Zeng Hongliu
Published: April 2015

Geology-guided reconditioning of seismic data is the key to improving extraction of relevant geologic information from three-dimensional (3-D) data volumes. In the Fullerton Clear Fork reservoir, the most convenient and useful tools for data reconditioning are phase shifting and high-frequency enhancement. A simple seismic phase rotation (to 90°) reconditions seismic data for impedance representation, roughly linking seismic amplitude directly to log lithology and porosity and making stratigraphic correlation more accurate. High-frequency enhancement raises the dominant frequency of 3-D seismic data from 30 to 50 Hz, improving seismic resolution without significantly deteriorating signal-to-noise ratio. More accurate and finer scale seismic mapping of reservoir parameters is achieved from model-based progressive inversion that seamlessly integrates geologic interpretation of well-derived seismic data and model-based seismic inversion for high-resolution (2 ft [0.6 m]) impedance models.
Illustrating the Postwar Peace: Miné Okubo, the “Citizen-Subject” of Japan, and Fortune Magazine
Authors: Hong Christine
Published: April 2015

Enlisted to visualize Japan for two late-war issues of Fortune magazine, Miné Okubo, a Nisei artist best known for Citizen 13660 (1946), an illustrated memoir of life in an American concentration camp, was tasked with envisioning the place of the citizen-subject of a vanquished Japan within a world order restructured by a pax Americana . Commissioned to produce images that performatively made the case for America’s war victory and Japan’s defeat, Okubo faced the twofold challenge of visually rehabilitating both the “enemy alien” on the home front and the enemy in the Pacific as democratically inclined subjects capable of thriving in settings conditioned by the strictures of US militarism. The “democratic” rehabilitation of the Japanese “enemy” in the Pacific was perceived as hinging on the successful Americanization of the alienized Japanese American. By examining Okubo’s wartime illustrations, this essay inquires into the undertheorized role of Nisei cultural producers in imagining a US-sponsored, militarized postwar peace.
Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law
Authors: Squires David
Published: April 2015

This essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty worked together with evolving concepts of race to create the social conditions of possibility for antiblack mob violence, despite a legal system that could have prevented it. Close analysis of Ida B. Wells’s early antilynching pamphlets clarifies how the problem of democratizing citizenship and civil rights became saturated with the question of how to ensure the more radical right to life.
Shifting the Gaze: Gender and Resilience in The Exiles
Authors: Fugikawa Laura Sachiko
Published: April 2015

In 2008 Milestone Pictures rereleased Kent Mackenzie’s 1961 black-and-white docudrama The Exiles , one of the few twentieth-century films that features urban American Natives. While The Exiles reinforces negative stereotypes about American Natives, it also serves as a visual archive of the dire economic and social realities for American Natives during the Termination era. This article sets The Exiles within a broader political and historical context of American Native urban experience and illustrates the critical role that gender played in urban relocation.
“The Biggest Little Marriage on Record”: Union and Disunion in Tom Thumb’s America
Authors: Franzino Jean
Published: April 2015

This article examines the extensive national newspaper coverage of the “Tom Thumb wedding,” the 1863 nuptials of Lavinia Warren and Charles Stratton, two little people performers from P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. The article argues that in the immediate aftermath of Emancipation, the Northern mass media presented the Strattons as idealized representations of whiteness, making their wedding a figure for the purity and unity of white America. At the same time, however, the newspaper coverage of the Strattons upended the traditional assumption that disability bars one from citizenship. The “Tom Thumb wedding” thus provides a unique vantage point from which to reconsider the freak show’s role in the historical production of race, as well as the dynamic relationship between disability, racial identity, and national belonging.
Untimely Subjects: White Trash and the Making of Racial Innocence in the Postwar South
Authors: Taylor Kirstine
Published: April 2015

This article analyzes the role that categories of racial transgression—specifically, the reviled “white trash” of the rural South—play in the historical construction of racial innocence in America. Writing in 1963, James Baldwin diagnosed innocence as the alchemy by which white Americans turn otherwise visible racial inequality into stories of redemption, virtue, and progress. In this article, I use shifting historical constructions of white trash from the Progressive Era to the post–World War II era to unearth the relationship between transgression and innocence. Beginning in the 1940s, white trash underwent a significant transformation that smoothed the reentrenchment of racial innocence during the era of Cold War liberalism and civil rights. Once figures of suspect racial “purity,” white trash in the postwar period operated as a repository of intractable antiblack violence, mobism, and retrogression. Their movement from racial contaminant to guilty white, I argue, brings into sharp relief the class-inflected transformation of racial innocence during the critical civil rights years: the New South’s commitment to “color-blind” law-and-order and economic progress were together formative of the protection of emergent white middle-class interests in the postwar South and a new kind of racial innocence that has since settled into contemporary national discourses on race.
The Arthurian Moment: History and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie
Authors: Fries Maureen
Published: April 2015

Geoffrey's need to find a suitable noble ancestor for his Norman patrons led to his blending of native history and legend with an imported fabulized past to create the figure of Arthur.
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Insular Historiography
Authors: Robertson Kellie
Published: April 2015

In claiming to translate his Latin history from a Celtic source, Geoffrey attempts to disrupt the received Anglo-Latin historical tradition. The divergent responses of monastic writers and secular rulers to the HRB later in the twelfth-century attest the success of his project.
Translating the Historia : The Ideological Transformation of the Historia regum Britannie in Twelfth-Century Vernacular Chronicles
Authors: Zatta Jane
Published: April 2015

Several twelfth-century vernacular translations of Geoffrey's HRB significantly alter their source, emphasizing the role of the nobility, rather than the monarch in the success of a nation.
A Minor Road to Camelot: Once A Week , 1859-1867
Authors: Simpson Roger
Published: April 2015

This article catalogues, investigates, and assesses the generally overlooked mass of Arthurian poetry, prose, and illustration, which appeared in the magazine Once a Week during the 1860s. Although the individual items are of only minor quality, cumulatively they form a significant body of work, providing evidence of a range of alternative approaches to the major Tennysonian tradition in mid-Victorian Arthurian literature.
Secret Rules: Sex, Confession, and Truth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Authors: Gross Gregory W.
Published: April 2015

The Gawain -poet chooses an erotic plot to complicate Gawain's relation to his community and to the meaning of trawþe.' Gawain's seduction by the lady subjects him to the power of confessional technique, and to a disciplinary mode of individualization that shift his sense of 'trawþe' from its traditional meaning (promise; covenant) to a new one, which first emerges in the fourteenth century and endures in the modern sense of 'truth,' as the objective state of that which is real.
Gawain's Judgment Day
Authors: Sleeth Charles R.
Published: April 2015

The purportedly Christian confession and absolution scene at Hautdesert serves only to heighten by contrast the vital consequences that the parodic absolution and confession scene at the Green Chapel has for Gawain. The Green Knight's power can arguably be understood as the retained power of the olds gods in a Christian society.
Emergent Direct Discourse in the Vulgate Cycle
Authors: Lacy Norris J.
Published: April 2015

The Vulgate Cycle makes extensive use of 'emergent direct discourse,'a stylistic procedure that consists of frequent shifts — even in mid-sentence — from narration or indirect discourse to direct discourse and sometimes back again, often in situations where the points of shift are impossible to determine. The effect of the method is to support other efforts within the Cycle to merge all voices into a single overarching one: the voice of the conte .
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Following of a Grail'
Authors: Lupack Barbara Tepa
Published: April 2015

F. Scott Fitzgerald incorporated traditional medieval and Arthurian motifs into his novels and short fiction. The wasteland and the grail quest are particularly prominent in Fitzgerald's first novel, This Side of Paradise , and in The Great Gatsby . A contemporary Merlin is the main character in 'O Russet Witch!,' one of the fantasies in the Tales of the Jazz Age . Fitzgerald's love for medievalism and for the Arthurian legends also carried over into his personal life.
Romanticizing The Past: Statis and Motion in Yvain and Vézelay
Authors: Neaman Judith S.
Published: April 2015

This comparison of such superficially different works as Vézelay's narthex tympanum and Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain focusses our attention on such similar iconographic and thematic content as their arcing structures and explorations of narrative. A sensory approach to the tympanum and the romance reveals some fundamental structures and concerns that typify Romanseque thought.
Chrétien de Troyes in English Translation: A Guide to the Issues
Authors: Sturges Robert S.
Published: April 2015

This essay offers guidance in discriminating among the available English translations of the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Rather than selecting a 'best' translation, it establishes criteria by which readers can judge which translations suit their needs. Translations are considered in terms of what they translate, of how they are translated, of how much help they provide in reading the romances in question.
Editing Malory: What's at (the) Stake?
Authors: Grimm Kevin
Published: April 2015

Vinaver's and Spisak's editorial interventions deeply affect the ways readers understand Malory's text.
The Literary Context of Geoffrey of Monmouth: An Essay on the Fabrication of Sources
Authors: Howlett D. R.
Published: April 2015

Geoffrey of Monmouth's various dedications of the HRB and his remarks at the end of the book issued from literary rivalry with William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntington, and Caradog of Llancarfan. Geoffrey's appeal to a secret source became a model for subsequent authors and translators.
Some Notes on Merlin
Authors: Littleton C. Scott , Malcor Linda A.
Published: April 2015

The image of Merlin that surfaces in the medieval romances is a complex syncretism reflecting Celtic, Christian, Alano-Sarmatian, and possibly historical overlays. The figures of Merlin and the Dame du Lac may ultimately derive from a common, probably female, prototype.
The Origins of the Arthurian Legend
Authors: Ashe Geoffrey
Published: April 2015

After prolonged debate, the search for the 'historical Arthur' remains inconclusive, because of the nature of the evidence which historians take into account. Possibilities arise, however, from evidence of another kind. Literary inquiry can lead towards historical insight and identify an Arthur-figure who has been noticed at various times, but not adequately considered.
A Little Known Codex, Bancroft MS. 73, and its Place in the Manuscript Tradition of the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal
Authors: Bogdanow Fanni
Published: April 2015

The extant mss. of the Vulgate Queste fall into two broad families, α and β. By far the largest number of mss. belong to family α. The Bancroft ms.(formerly Phillips 4377 and for a long time unavailable to scholars), derives from family β and is closely related to B.N. fr. 342.
Where Wace Feared to Tread: Latin Commentaries on Merlin's Prophecies in the Reign of Henry II
Authors: Blacker Jean
Published: April 2015

Political rather than aesthetic considerations led Wace to omit Merlin's prophecies from the Roman de Brut (c. 1155). Anti-Norman overtones in John of Cornwall's Prophetia Merlini (c. 1153-54) suggest that Wace's fears of presenting political apocalyptic to a royal audience may not have been unfounded.
Strickers Daniel von dem blühenden Tal Ein 'klassischer' Artusroman?
Authors: Wambach Annemarie
Published: April 2015

In this innovative work, Stricker explores the genre of the Arthurian romance in order to compose a mirror for the nobility. The protagonist, Daniel, emphasizes the rational aspects of King Arthur's code of honor to image the ideal knight and his role in perfecting feudal relationships.
'The glory and the freshness of a dream': Arthurian Romance as Reconstructed Childhood
Authors: Kirchhoff Frederick
Published: April 2015

Morris's discovery of the Morte Darthur marked a turning point in his artistic development; his subsequent loss of interest in Arthurian romance is fully as revealing as his initial enthusiasm for it.
The Public Life and Private Desires of Women in William Morris's 'Defence of Guenevere'
Authors: Struve Laura
Published: April 2015

Morris's poem illustrates how Victorian conceptions of public and private spheres restricted women, and it also indicates how women could manipulate these discourses to overcome those restrictions.
The Perfect Hero: Cruel Masculinity in D. G. Rossetti's The Death of Breuse sans Pitié
Authors: Yamaguchi Eriko
Published: April 2015

Rossetti's interest in cruel masculinity, shown in The Death of Breuse sans Pitié , discloses a new aspect of his medievalism.
Frenzy and Females: Subject Formation in Opposition to
The Other in the Prose Lancelot
Authors: Plummer John F.
Published: April 2015

The multiple periods of madness suffered by Lancelot in the presence of liminal, sexually charged women suggests anxiety about a whole, stable, chivalric male subject.
'And Fall Down at His Feet': Signifying Guinevere in Chretien's Le Chevalier de la Charrete
Authors: Sears Theresa Ann
Published: April 2015

In The Knight of the Cart , Chrétien surrounds his protagonists with a web of symbolically charged signs. These signs, in spite of the profound significance that they have for the characters, nevertheless serve to question the poem's interpretation of its characters' identity as much as they confirm it.
The Horseman Before the Cart: Intertextual Theory and the Chevalier de la Charrette
Authors: Schwartz Debora B.
Published: April 2015

This essay combines a Riffaterrean model of intertextuality with Jaussian reception theory to analyze the textual dynamics at work in Chrétien de Troyes's Chevalier de la Charrette . Ulrich von Zatzikhoven's Lanzelet , standing in for its lost French source, is considered as part of the matiere reworked by Chrétien in the Charrette ; an intertextual reading of the two romances provides insight into what may have been Chrétien's san .
Reinterpreting the Tristan Romances of Thomas and Gotfrid: Implications of a Recent Discovery
Authors: Haug Walter
Published: April 2015

The recent discovery of the Carlisle Fragment of Thomas's 'Tristan' makes it necessary to revise our view of Gotfrid's relationship to Thomas's work.
Back To the Future: Malory's Genres
Authors: Morse Ruth
Published: April 2015

This article reconsiders the narrative categories of Malory's book within the umbrella of 'historia,' arguing that while the reader is invited to take the account seriously as historical, that invitation occurs in a reading culture which requires us to recognize a medieval, rhetorically-derived, genre.
The Nannau Oak: Bulwer Lytton and his Midsummer Knight at the Westminster Round Table
Authors: Simpson Roger
Published: April 2015

Lytton's King Arthur sometimes has richer resonances than is generally acknowledged. Gawaine's encounter with the fairies relates not only to Welsh topographical legends but to contemporary artistic and political events at Westminster.
Epistemology of the Bedchamber: Textuality, Knowledge, and the Representation of Adultery in Malory and the Prose Lancelot
Authors: Sturges Robert S.
Published: April 2015

Malory's text and his source, the Prose Lancelot , represent two competing models of medieval textuality recently theorized by Mary J. Carruthers and by Alexandre Leupin, the 'memorial' and the 'incarnational,' respectively. These different models of textuality also imply competing epistemologies and reading strategies, and allow for the two texts' different approaches to the problem of representing adultery.
Le Roman de Silence : Allegory in Ruin or Womb of Irony?
Authors: Gilmore Gloria Thomas
Published: April 2015

Merlin and Silence wage a final metaphoric / metonymic battle in the evolution of allegory: Merlin's laughter exiles him to perpetual self-generation, as women are restored to the reign of Silence .
No Pain, No Gain: Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory's Morte d'Arthur
Authors: Finke Laurie A. , Shichtman Martin B.
Published: April 2015

Romances like Malory's Morte d'Arthur endorse a sexual economy of structured violent exchanges in which masculinity is built around the continual circulation of women and wealth as rewards for sanctioned violence.
Cracking the Penile Code: Reading Gender and Conquest in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Authors: Bartlett Anne Clark
Published: April 2015

The Alliterative Morte d'Arthur encompasses a wide range of erotic configurations that derive meaning by conflating the languages of love and war. This essay examines the poem's representations of late medieval English erotic practices and codes.
Eorles and Beornes: Contextualizing Lawman's Brut
Authors: Allen Rosamund
Published: April 2015

This essay considers contexts of Lawman's Brut , which constructs an idealized monarchy through its presentation of King Arthur, whose behavior closely resembles that of the loyal William Marshal, earl of Pembroke. University of London. She has worked on Arthurian material and mystical texts; her translation of Lawman's Brut appeared in 1992.
Narrators, Messengers, and Lawman's Brut
Authors: Parry Joseph D.
Published: April 2015

As Lawman uses the messenger motif in his Brut both to facilitate and to interpret the role that knowledge and power play in British history, the poet also imagines his own role as history's authorized messenger. Messengers model and endorse Lawman's gestures at writing himself a place next to the people of British history and, perhaps more importantly, to the places in which that history occurred.
Wolfram's Grail
Authors: McDonald William C.
Published: April 2015

Although the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach ( c. 1210) borrows extensively from Chrétien's Perceval , the German poet and narrator vigorously denies it. Wolfram further asserts his independence from Chrétien through literary style, rhetorical devices, irony and humor.
Gender, Genealogy, and the 'Story of the Three Spindles' in the Queste del Saint Graal
Authors: Looper Jennifer E.
Published: April 2015

The 'story of the three spindles' and the tale of Perceval's sister's redemptive efforts function in the Queste del Saint Graal as a locus of resistance to this work's misogynistic program, characterized by the construction of a reformed society from which women are excluded.
Malory Moralisé: The Disarming of Le Morte Darthur , 1800-1918
Authors: Lynch Andrew
Published: April 2015

Nineteenth-century revivers of Malory were consistently antipathetic to his fight scenes. They abridged and misleadingly moralized the fights to let the Morte become an exemplar of Victorian 'chivalry.'
King Arthur at the Punch Round Table, 1859-1914
Authors: Simpson Roger
Published: April 2015

Parodying Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Punch cartoons and verse presented British parliamentary politics as ironic commentary on the 'coming,' 'morte,' and 'return' of Arthurian story.
The Questing Beast as emblem of the ruin of Logres in the Post-Vulgate
Authors: Furtado Antonio L.
Published: April 2015

The Post-Vulgate shows Arthur oppressed, from the beginning of his reign, by an early vision of death announced in a dream, and by the sight of a nightmarish portent: the Questing Beast. Using analogies with classic and biblical narratives, this paper discusses the many-layered senefiance attached to the Beast along its successive incarnations.
Caxton's Prologue to Malory and the Welsh Brut
Authors: Breeze Andrew
Published: April 2015

The mysterious 'Welsh books' on Arthur mentioned by Caxton in his preface to Malory were probably Welsh translations of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain .
Percival's Sister: Genealogy, Virginity, and Blood
Authors: Shichtman Martin B.
Published: April 2015

Because she is a virgin and seems to play a pivotal role in the 'Tale of the Sankgreal,' scholars have been reluctant to recognize Percival's sister as a commodity in the sexual economy of Malory's text. This essay suggests Percival's sister is trafficked, to several different parties, to create bonds among kinship groups.
Guenevere the Enchantress
Authors: Hoffman Donald L.
Published: April 2015

This post-Dumezilian analysis to Fries' tripartite typology of female roles in Arthurian legend, primarily Malory, suggests that the rumors of Guenevere's witchcraft and the genealogy of Morgan confuse the boundaries of legitimacy and imply a latent counter-reading of Malory and a destabilization of the contraries in the Fries schema.
Malory's Guenevere: 'A Woman Who Had Grown a Soul'
Authors: Kennedy Edward Donald
Published: April 2015

At the end of Le Morte Darthur when Lancelot mentions to Guenevere his failure on the Grail Quest, his statement reminds the reader of another failure: Galahad, who had saved so many, had been ultimately unable to save his father. This role is ironically reserved for Guenevere: the woman who had been the reason for Lancelot's downfall finally leads him to salvation.
The Erotic Merlin
Authors: Goodrich Peter H.
Published: April 2015

The figure of Merlin manifests exotic characteristics in the conventions of his madness, conception and birth, and his actions as seer, tryst-maker, and lover. He is both a catalyst and victim of eros.
Rationalizing the Irrational: Merlin and His Prophecies in the Modern Historical Novel
Authors: Thompson Raymond H.
Published: April 2015

Merlin's magical powers are usually rationalized in modern historical fiction. His visions of the future, however, remain prophetic, even when they are aided by his own inspired guesswork and intervention in events. That Merlin's prophecies should so stubbornly resist the conventions of the genre suggests they have become a core element in Arthurian tradition.
Exorcising Exclusion: The Figure of Merlin in Hersart de la Villemarqué's Barzaz Breiz
Authors: Le Saux Françoise H.M.
Published: April 2015

The Breton Merlin cycle maps out the social and psychological causes of the prophet's marginal status, which leads to his being dehumanized. Resolution depends on Merlin's explicit recognition of vulnerability.
Origins and Originality: Reading Lawman's Brut and the Rejection of British Library MS Cotton Otho C.xiii
Authors: Perry Lucy
Published: April 2015

The privileging of the text of British Library MS Cotton Caligula A.ix over that of BL MS Cotton Otho C.xiii led to the rejection of the latter version and determined ideas about the text and its manuscripts for many decades. Scholarly enquiry into Lawman's Brut should embrace Cotton Otho as a text read before the invention of modern medieval studies that should be read again.
Peredur Son of Efrawg : A Text in Transition
Authors: Roberts Brynley F.
Published: April 2015

In studies of Peredur Son of Efrawg , the Peniarth MS. 7 version should not be regarded as incomplete but rather as part of a body of material with its own cultural cross-referencing, often unstated but understood. The later White Book of Rhydderch version is an autonomous story bearing its own separate significance and revealing a more authorial, text-based attitude to story.
Looking for Arthur in All the Wrong Places: A Note on M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense
Authors: Harty Kevin J.
Published: April 2015

The Sixth Sense contains more than one surprise. For Arthurians, the surprise—and it is a surprise that has been ignored by the critics—is that the film invokes the legend of the return of Arthur to heal the central character, his mother, and, even, his psychiatrist.
Culhwch and Olwen : A Structured Portrayal of Arthur?
Authors: Piquemal Catherine
Published: April 2015

Re-analyzing Arthur's depiction in Culhwch and Olwen , this article concentrates on how the structure given to previously disparate traditions creates a coherent picture of Arthur and promotes him as an overking.
Lovespell and the Disinterpretation of a Legend
Authors: Lacy Norris J.
Published: April 2015

Although the 1979 film Lovespell incorporates many traditional themes and motifs from the medieval Tristan stories or their modern adaptations, the film tends to respect only the narrative contours of those themes. The result is a largely incoherent vision or interpretation of one of the world's most enduring love stories.
Insult and Redress in Cyfraith Hywel Dda and Welsh Arthurian Romance
Authors: Cichon Michael
Published: April 2015

This article, treating the laws in their context as well as specific legal references in the Romances, examines the transactional nature of insult and redress as portrayed in medieval Welsh law and literature. The laws contain commentary on hierarchy and behavior, and the narratives show to some extent how the laws worked. Both shed light on the values of the society that produced the literature.
Fear of Flyting: The Absence of Internal Tension in Sword of the Valiant and First Knight
Authors: Blanch Robert J. , Wasserman Julian N.
Published: April 2015

Despite the dramatic potential inherent in their Arthurian subject matter, Sword of the Valiant and First Knight are films which fail with both audiences and critics precisely because both films fail to include the internal tensions which are present in their respective medieval sources.
'Se what I shall do as for my trew parte': Fellowship and Fortitude in Malory's Noble Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius
Authors: Ricciardi Marc
Published: April 2015

Arthur, in the Winchester Malory, promotes the Round Table ideal of fellowship, whereas the Caxton Malory portrays a king who is a solitary hero.
'Every man of worshyp': Emotion and Characterization in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Authors: Ackerman Felicia
Published: April 2015

Le Morte Darthur has characters who are believable as coherent individuals.
St. Joseph and Britain: The Old French Origins
Authors: Crawford Deborah K.E.
Published: April 2015

The association of Joseph of Arimathea with the grail and Britain in early Arthurian romance was caused by the identification of the grail as a blood relic. A further association with Joseph would have been virtually automatic, since Joseph and the Crucifixion story were already part of popular tradition.
Does Tristan Think, or Doesn't He?: The Pleasures of the Middle English

Sir Tristrem
Authors: Symons Dana M.
Published: April 2015

Contrasting representations of selfhood in the Tristan story point to differences in audience pleasure and expectation that highlight the separate milieux for literate French and popular English narratives and mark diverging tastes within medieval English audiences.
Merlin's Magical Writing: Writing and the Written Word in Le Morte Darthur and the English Prose Merlin
Authors: Cawsey Kathy
Published: April 2015

This article explores the image of the written word in Le Morte Darthur and the prose Merlin, and examines the way in which writing is enmeshed with the character of Merlin.
Re-writing Malory: Vinaver's Selected Tales
Authors: Sklar Elizabeth S.
Published: April 2015

This essay scrutinizes the editorial choices Vinaver made in King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Sir Thomas Malory and examines the way those choices radically reconstitute the substance, shape, and thematics of Malory's Morte Darthur .
The Idea of Providence in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Authors: Kennedy Beverly
Published: April 2015

Malory represents the idea of Providence to his readers in four ways.
Wagner's Musical Quest: The 'Grail' in Parsifal
Authors: Straughn Gregory
Published: April 2015

In Parsifal , Richard Wagner rearranges the chronological order, uses a pre-existing musical phrase as the 'Grail' motif, and continually evokes the past through narratives and quotations, thus creating a ritualistic mood for the music-drama—an effect carried over into the festival house which was built for its first performance.
Rhyming Patterns and Structures of Meaning in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur
Authors: Sutherland Jenifer
Published: April 2015

Analyzing the pattern of rhymes in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur , this essay argues that the poet develops a system of structural relationships by associating each of the four main characters with a personal sound pattern that builds his or her fate into the fate of the court. Rhyme contributes to the poem's power and beauty.
Between Knights: Triangular Desire and Sir Palomides in Sir Thomas Malory's The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones
Authors: Mongan Olga Burakov
Published: April 2015

In The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones the male-male relationship of the rivals in an erotic triangle surpasses in its intensity the heterosexual bond that ties the two knights to the beloved.
L'Estoire de Merlin and the Mirage of the Patrilineage
Authors: Looper Jennifer E.
Published: April 2015

The Merlin contains the Lancelot-Grail Cycle's most extensive re-evaluation of father figures in both the aristocratic family and literary lineages. The author's simultaneous acceptance and dismissal of male hegemony as a stabilizing force in these two domains reveals his ambivalent attitude toward the subject.
Lyric Discourse and Female Vocality: On the Unsilencing of Silence
Authors: Callahan Christopher
Published: April 2015

The practice of lyric allows both Silence and Nicolete of chantefable fame to transcend the limits of gender, by validating both their male and female personae at once. Whether purely literary convention or reality, this empowerment is characteristic of medieval lyric discourse.
Male-Order Brides: Marriage, Patriarchy, and Monarchy in the Roman de Silence
Authors: Kinoshita Sharon
Published: April 2015

Continuing her previous work on the Roman de Silence 's conservative politics, the author analyzes two specific mechanisms through which King Ebain enhances monarchical power: exchanging an adulterous, exogamous wife for a chaste, endogamous one; and dispossessing the earl of Chester, a great baron of the realm.
Intertextuality and the Problem of the Relationship of the First and Second Versions of the Prose Tristan to the Post-Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal , third part of the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal
Authors: Bogdanow Fanni
Published: April 2015

There is a close relationship between the Post-Vulgate Queste and the Queste incorporated into the 'Second Version' of the Prose Tristan ( Tr. II ). Textual evidence would suggest that the compiler of Tr. II incorporated large sections of the P-V Queste .
Genealogy and Cross-Gendering in Le Roman de Silence and Ariake no Wakare [ Parting at Dawn ]
Authors: Khan Robert Omar
Published: April 2015

Le Roman de Silence and the twelfth-century Japanese court tale Ariake no Wakare [ Parting at Dawn ] feature similar constellations of themes, narrativization and reception history. They link aristocratic inheritance anxieties and female-to-male crossdressing with extraordinary musical abilities and services to a sovereign, reflecting parallel preoccupations.
'Li Mireor du Monde': Specularity in the Roman de Silence
Authors: Krause Kathy M.
Published: April 2015

Silence, twice called 'le miroir du monde,' embodies both positive and negative symbolic aspects of the medieval mirror. She exemplifies courtly and chivalric virtue, and reveals hidden truths, but she is also a 'miroir trompeur,' reflecting surface appearances while hiding her real identity.
From Quest to Quest: Perceval and Galahad in the Prose Lancelot
Authors: Combes Annie
Published: April 2015

The Lancelot 's long-standing 'internal contradiction' is generated by a long-term strategy that not only authorizes a double reading, but also holds the key to the work's mysterious construction of Lancelot's genealogy.
Civilization and Its Discontents: Cultural Primitivism and Merlin as a Wild Man in the Roman de Silence
Authors: Stock Lorraine Kochanske
Published: April 2015

By depicting Merlin as a Wild Man and referring allusively to Dangiers in the Roman de la Rose , Heldris engages ambivalently with the discourse of cultural primitivism, which expresses discontent with civilization and promotes a 'natural' lifestyle as preferable to the corruption inherent in 'nurtured' civilized life.
How the Demoiselle d'Escalot Became a Picture
Authors: Greene Virginie
Published: April 2015

The Mort Artu 's story of the Demoiselle d'Escalot displays through its narrative and descriptive peculiarities the difficulty of representing a woman in romance.
Images of Romance: The Miniatures of Le Roman de Silence
Authors: Bolduc Michelle
Published: April 2015

If the manuscript illuminations of chivalric romance are typically active and courtly, those of the Roman de Silence visually highlight the romance's preoccupation with language and gender.
The Crossdresser and the Juventus : Category Crisis in Silence
Authors: Sturges Robert S.
Published: April 2015

Problematics of class and gender intersect in the crossdressing heroines of medieval romance. Silence can be read as an alternate version of the high medieval disinherited younger son, the juvenis , supporting Marjorie Garber's claim that the crossdresser often represents displaced anxieties about categories other than gender.
Sacred Romance: Silence and the Hagiographical Tradition
Authors: Dahmen Lynne
Published: April 2015

The tradition of vitae , specifically of crossdressing female saints, serves as an important source and point of reference for this didactic romance.
Queering Gender and Naturalizing Class in the Roman de Silence
Authors: Clark Robert L.A.
Published: April 2015

A queer reading allows us to see how the text's sodomitic moments not only serve to destabilize sex—gender categories but also point to a more general anxiety about the coherence of categories of race and class. Noble birth emerges as the only stable referent, the only work of Nature not undone by Nurture.
Women and Castles in Geoffrey of Monmouth and Malory
Authors: Murray Susan E.
Published: April 2015

Medieval authors negotiated comparative meanings for the women and castles of their texts; this expression became an important metaphor for representing the condition of Arthurian society. 1
An Historical Linguistic Description of Sir Thomas Malory's Dialect
Authors: Denton Jeannette Marshall
Published: April 2015

Late Middle English sound changes may have shaped Malory's northeastern Warwickshire dialect and that of his upper-class London audience.
Elaine's Epistolarity: The Fair Maid of Astolat's Letter in Malory's Morte Darthur
Authors: Donavin Georgiana
Published: April 2015

This essay argues that Malory employs dictaminal conventions from the medieval letter writing tradition to construct a feminist subjectivity in the figure of Elaine of Astolat.
Reading Malory in the Fifteenth Century: Aural Reception and Performance Dynamics
Authors: Coleman Joyce
Published: April 2015

This article explores the external and internal evidence that Malory wrote the Morte for public reading, then speculates about how such a reading session would proceed.
Marginal Males, Disciplined Daughters, and Guinevere's Adultery in A Kid in King Arthur's Court
Authors: Pugh Tison
Published: April 2015

Although A Kid in King Arthur's Court may initially offer an exciting space of female agency within the typically masculinist confines of the Arthurian tradition, the agency of its heroines is drastically undermined as the male protagonists assert their patriarchal authority.
'So precyously coverde': Malory's Hermeneutic Quest of the Sankgreal
Authors: Tiller Kenneth J.
Published: April 2015

This essay demonstrates the ways Malory encodes various competing interpretations in the Tale of the Sankgreal to highlight tensions between secular-chivalric and allegorical systems that inform the grail quest.
King Arthur in World War Two Poetry: His Finest Hour?
Authors: Simpson Roger
Published: April 2015

This article surveys the many and diverse forms taken by the Arthurian legends in English poetry during the Second World War.
Reading Malory Aloud: Syntax, Gender, and Narrative Pace
Authors: Allen Rosamund
Published: April 2015

This essay explores the contrast between the paratactic syntax of narrative action and the hypotactic syntax of speakers reflecting on situations.
Reading Malory Aloud: Poetic Qualities and Distinctive Voice
Authors: Jesmok Janet
Published: April 2015

Reading Malory aloud expands the text's meaning—its narration, characterization and dialogue, feeling and poetic experience—bringing us closer to the fifteenth-century audience's experience and enjoyment of the work.
Of Arthour and of Merlin as Medieval Children's Literature
Authors: Clifton Nicole
Published: April 2015

This comparison of the Middle English Auchinleck manuscript's romance Of Arthour and of Merlin to its Old French source suggests that this poem is the earliest instance of Arthurian children's literature in English.
The Voice of Aurality in the Morte Darthur
Authors: Twomey Michael W.
Published: April 2015

Reading Malory aloud encourages the prelector to appeal so the listener's ear by emphasizing parataxis and repetition as means of assisting memory.
Noble Knights and 'Mischievous War': The Rhetoric of War in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Authors: Robeson Lisa
Published: April 2015

This essay argues that for Malory warfare may be socially and politically destructive but can be honorable and natural as long as it is undertaken by honorable members of the order of chivalry.
An Introduction to Aural Malory: Sessions and Round Tables
Authors: Cherewatuk Karen
Published: April 2015

This introduction explains how the project 'Reading Malory Aloud, Then and Now' was born and anticipates some of the lessons of voicing and hearing Le Morte Darthur .
The Animation of Marginal Decorations in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Authors: Meuwese Martine
Published: April 2015

The animated interludes in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail demonstrate director and animator Terry Gilliam's interest in and use of images in the margins of Gothic manuscripts.
Malory and His Scribes
Authors: Field P.J.C.
Published: April 2015

The most authoritative edition of the Morte Darthur suggests that the scribes of the unique manuscript were faithful copyists who sometimes made mechanical errors. The essay argues (with examples) that they also made conscious changes to their copy.
A Fool of a Knight, a Knight of a Fool: Malory's Comic Knights
Authors: Nagy Gergely
Published: April 2015

The examination of three predominantly comic knights in Malory's Morte Darthur shows that the 'comic discourse' reinforces—rather than subverts—the serious 'heroic/tragic discourse' of the book.
Royal Policy and Malory's Round Table
Authors: Kelly Robert L.
Published: April 2015

King Arthur's Round Table, as Malory portrays it in 'The Tale of King Arthur', does not exist for the disinterested promotion of chivalric virtue. It is rather an instrument of rule, through which a kingly patron recruits noble retainers to serve the specific, chiefly military, needs of his reign