Exploring Guinevere's search for authenticity in the Arthurian romances
Subtitle: the thousand-year quest for a mythic woman to find her historical embodiment in film and literature
By: Janet Bubar Rich ; with a foreword by Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780773426634
Subjects: Queen Guenevere (Legendary character); Women in motion pictures; Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature; History and criticism; Sex role in literature; Arthurian romances; Women; Sex role in motion pictures; Mythology; Romances; Women in literature
Other titles: Guinevere's search for authenticity in the Arthurian romances :
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Guinevere's emergence; title: Courtly love; title: The reach of Arthurian and Grail legends; title: Myths connect us; title: Discussion: approach and methodology; title: The many faces of Guinevere; title: Myths are alive; title: Guinevere's world; title: Guinevere's mythic origins; title: Guinevere's myriad faces; title: Mythopoetic grounding; title: Guinevere serves soul; title: Joseph Campbell on myth and the hero's journey; title: Islamic, or Arabic, influences on Guinevere's journey; title: Sophia, mystical love, and-Guinevere; title: The heroine's journey; title: The language of myth; title: Guinevere's hero's journey; title: Guinevere the symbol; title: Guinevere: female wisdom; title: "The knight with the lion"-Guinevere's wasteland; title: "The knight of the cart" -call to adventure; title: Le morte d'Arthur-Guinevere's trials or ordeals; title: Idylls of the king-Guinevere's boon for society; title: Guinevere the woman; title: Bringing Guinevere forward in imagination; title: Mythological threads; title: Guineverian romances; title: Emma Jung on the myth's significance; title: Voices of women on the sufi path; title: Guinevere immortalized in artwork; title: Simone de Beauvoir on authenticity; title: Feminist voices; title: Parke Godwin's Guinevere; title: Guinevere's search for authenticity; title: Reflecting on Guinevere's yarn; title: Guinevere on stages and pages; title: Guinevere moves forward through mass media; title: Guinevere's mythology evolves; title: Moving Guinevere's myth forward; title: Spring: a time of change and renewal; title: Guinevere: born into a patriarchal world; title: The psyche sings of Guinevere; title: Freeing Guinevere; title: Looking at the Round Table; title: Guinevere speaks; title: Guinevere takes her seat at the Round Table.