The Arthurian way of death
Subtitle: the English tradition
By: edited by Karen Cherewatuk and K.S. Whetter.
Contributors: Cherewatuk, Karen.; Whetter, K. S. 1969-
Series: Arthurian studies -- 74; Arthurian studies -- 74.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Woodbridge, UK; Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng; enm
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781843842088
Subjects: Arthurian romances -- History and criticism; Death in literature; Arthurian romances in motion pictures; Death in motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in English ; Some passages in Middle English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / K.S. Whetter and Karen Cherewatuk; title: Pt I, The early tradition in England. 'But here Geoffrey falls silent' : death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie / Siân Echard ; Mordred's sons / Edward Donald Kennedy ; Dying in Uncle Arthur's arms and at his hands / Karen Cherewatuk; title: Pt. II, Middle English romance and Malory. 'Hadet with an aluisch mon' and 'britned to nost' : Sir Gawain and the green knight, death, and the devil / Michael W. Twomey ; Love and death in Arthurian romance / K.S. Whetter ; Death in the margins : dying and scribal performance in the Winchester manuscript / Thomas H. Crofts ; The legible corpses of Le mort Darthur / Michael Wenthe ; Malory and the death of kings : the politics of regicide at Salisbury Plain / Lisa Robeson ; 'Layde to the colde erthe' : death, Arthur's knights, and narrative closure / Cory james Rushton; title: Pt. III, Medieval influence and the modern Arthuriana. Arthurian exits : alone, together, or none of the above / Janina P. Traxler ; Woman as agent of death in Tennyson's Idylls of the king / James Noble ; Death as 'neglect of duty' in Howard Pyle's The story of the Grail and the passing of Arthur / Julie Nelson Couch ; Death and the 'grimly voice' in David Jones's In parenthesis / Samantha Rayner ; Roll the final credits : some notes on cinematic depictions of the death of Arthur / Kevin J. Harty.