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Eternal chalice the Grail in literature and legend

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  • Author: Potkay, Monica Brzezinski
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2006
    Summary:

    In this course, College of William & Mary professor Monica Brzezinski Potkay provides an overview of the many different ways writers of fiction and nonfiction have imagined, and reimagined, the object known as the Grail.

    Contents:
    • Chr�etien de Troyes's Story of the Grail or Perceval : Part I
    • Chr�etien de Troyes's Story of the Grail or Perceval : Part II
    • The prose trilogy based on Robert de Boron's Grail poems : Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, and Perceval
    • The Lancelot-Grail version of The quest of the Holy Grail
    • Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
    • Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and Richard Wagner's opera Persifal
    • Scholarship in the 19th and 20th centuries
    • Jessie Weston's From ritual to romance
    • T.S. Eliot's The waste land
    • Charles William's War in Heaven
    • Marion Zimmer Bradley's The mists of Avalon
    • A Quintet of Grail films
    • Michael Baigent, Richard Leig, and Henry Lincoln's Holy blood, Holy Grail and Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code
    • Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
    Genre:
    History and geography
    Subject(s): Arthurian romances | Grail | History and criticism | Legends
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, Md., Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781449899141