Research Catalog

Title

Iwain; study in the origins of Arthurian Romance.

Author

Brown, Arthur Charles Lewis, 1869-1946.

Publication

New York, Haskell House, 1968.

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Details

Description

vi, 147 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Arthurian romances > History and criticism
• Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
• Knights and knighthood in literature
• Yvain (Legendary character) > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard University, 1900.
• Reprint of the 1903 ed.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Iwain -- a study in the origins of Arthurian romance / Arthur C. L. Brown -- Introductory -- The Matron of Ephesus and Chretien's Ivain -- History of the Celtic theory -- Ancient Celtic stories of the journey to the other world -- Later Celtic stories of the journey to the other world -- Iwain in the other world -- Chretien's redaction of the tale of Iwain -- The other-world landscape in the romances and lays -- Conclusions -- II. Arthur and Gorlagon / G. L. Kittredge -- The four versions of the Werewolf's Tale -- Relations of the four redactions -- Reconstruction of X (the source of MGI) -- The Welsh Gorlagon -- The frame-story in version Y -- Peculiarities of the Irish version (I) -- The quest for the sword of light -- The defence of the child -- The conclusion in Arthur and Gorlagon -- The werewolf's tale in Malory -- An Icelandic parallel -- A Judaeo-German version -- Werewolves in Ireland -- Conclusion.

LCCN

^^^68008365^//r893

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library