Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance.

Howard R. Patch; Charles Bertram Lewis

doi:10.2307/2912893

Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance: A Study of the Sources of Chrestien de Troyes' 'Yvain' and other Arthurian Romances. Charles Bertram Lewis

Speculum ◽

10.2307/2853904 ◽

1934 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 336-337

Author(s):

John J. Parry

Keyword(s):

Arthurian Romance ◽

Arthurian Romances ◽

Classical Mythology

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Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance. A Study of the Sources of Chrestien de Troyes' 'Yvain' and Other Arthurian Romances

The Modern Language Review ◽

10.2307/3715902 ◽

1933 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 114

Author(s):

Jessie Crosland ◽

Charles Bertram Lewis

Keyword(s):

Arthurian Romance ◽

Arthurian Romances ◽

Classical Mythology

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Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance - Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance. By C. B. Lewis. Pp. xiv + 332; frontispiece, and I plan in text. London: Milford, 1932. Cloth, 12s. 6d.

The Classical Review ◽

10.1017/s0009840x00061163 ◽

1933 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 34-35

Author(s):

H. J. Rose

Keyword(s):

Arthurian Romance ◽

Classical Mythology

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Classical Mythology and Arthurian Romance: A Study of the Sources of Chrétien de Troyes' "Yvain" and Other Arthurian Romances. Charles Bertram Lewis

Modern Philology ◽

10.1086/388035 ◽

1932 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 222-224

Author(s):

Foster E. Guyer

Keyword(s):

Chretien De Troyes ◽

Arthurian Romance ◽

Chrétien De Troyes ◽

Arthurian Romances ◽

Classical Mythology

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George Barker in the 1930s: Narcissus and the Autodidact

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/mod.2015.0111 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 250-268

Author(s):

Leo Mellor

Keyword(s):

Cultural Authority ◽

Classical Mythology

This article traces the complex and potent role of classical mythology in the poet George Barker's work of the 1930s. Noting Geoffrey Grigson's rage about ‘narcissism’ when reviewing Barker in 1935 it shows why this barb was more perceptive and apposite – in acknowledging an obsession with both a figure and an overtly classical precedent – than the acclamation given to Barker at the time, from T. S. Eliot among others. Central to the article is an exploration of Barker's heterodox version of a common modernist urge: encountering and reworking of fractured myths. For the radical and ever-present notions of uncertainty with which classical tales and Gods are treated in Barker's work is also revelatory of the autodidactic process – incomplete, unstable, and without class-annotated cultural authority – by which he gained such knowledge. The article thus situates Barker within a cultural matrix, and draws renewed attention to the pluralities of poetry within 1930s Britain.

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Epilogue

10.1093/oso/9780199583478.003.0009 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Sheila Murnaghan ◽

Deborah H. Roberts

Keyword(s):

New Media ◽

Further Education ◽

Modern World ◽

Fan Fiction ◽

Fantasy Literature ◽

Childhood Experiences ◽

Pleasure Reading ◽

Classical Mythology ◽

Children And Young Adults

The preceding work is summed up as a study of adults’ attempts over a century-long period to make sense of their own childhood experiences of antiquity and to recreate those experiences for new generations through the medium of absorbing pleasure reading. Such experiences are valued for their capacity to stimulate the imagination, to expand moral understanding, to pave the way for further education, and to bring renewal or redemption to the disturbed modern world. The chapter ends with a brief survey of developments in classical mythology and historical fiction for children and young adults from the mid-1960s until the present, including the emergence of new forms of fantasy literature and the role of new media such as video games and fan fiction.

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