... on a Grail topic in the last twenty years, one of which is an edition of the Jessie L. Weston classic From Ritual to Romance; another studies Malory's version, while a third concerns narrative Arthurian romance from 1150 to 1250 in general. Similarly, the greatest concentration of journal articles...

... the worlds of the Grail Knights and of Klingsor, on opposite sides of one mountain range. As Wieland Wagner demonstrated, the arrangement of characters can be represented as a perfectly symmetrical cross (28-29). The music is marked by a duality, one that primarily regards the powerful opposition between...

... such as the Grail quest knights. Sunderland borrows Jacques Derrida's notion of the supplement and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's figure of the rhizome, however, to describe how the very mechanisms of cyclical elaboration always undermine a text's completeness (9). Every end can, after all, serve as a point...

... around the first third of the thirteenth century—accomplishes the difficult feat of inserting the traditional narrative of the Cornish lovers found in the verse versions (principally those composed by Thomas and Béroul in the twelfth century) into the chronotope of the Lancelot/Grail cycle...

..., Regina Ed and Trans. Jean Renart: The Romance of the Rose or of Guillaume de Dole (Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole). New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995. Ramm, Ben. Gallica: A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance. Rochester, New York: D. S. Brewer, 2007. Ravel...

... boundaries, those neat geometric lines that make the universe comprehensible; that same geometry, however, renders the world sterile, cold, unbearable). Barely pubescent, the young Sophronia would go and play with the knights of the Order of the Holy Grail away from parental surveillance-and she eventually...

... by the four-volume set that asks us to read various versions of the novel, fragments, and ébauches . And now that the fabled Soixante-quinze feuillets have been found and published, we are told, seriously, that they offer us “the holy grail,” recording the “sacred moment” when the creation...

... of the CdC, but the narrative coherence imposed by the hierarchy established between Perceval's biography and other knights' adventures shifts the balance in favor of the centripetal elements of the narrative. It is also with C2 and the following Continuations that the need to revisit the Grail Castle...

... having snatched the grail that was then the agrégation de lettres , why pursue further studies? My father could not see what more I could possibly dream of, since the national education system afforded its fonctionnaires jobs for life. As for my dubious mother, she was worried I would never get...

... disloyalty and chivalric dishonor involved. Two representative passages from La Mort Ie Roi Artu, the concluding text of the cycle, show these views, the first coming at the beginning, when the narrator is explaining what has happened since the previous narrative of the quest of the grail: Mes comment que...

... copies subverts the natural order (and the hint of perversion in the figure of the transvestite subtly bleeds over into that of the scientific editor). Mocking as one would say nowadays, in a non-medieval context, the Holy Grail of textual criticism, the perfectly objective classification of manuscripts...

... the citation, for instance, in the description of the wood RICHARD TRACHSLER from which Floriant's ship is made, that echoes the description of the legs of the table in the Grail Castle in Chretien's Conte du Graal: vv. 797-800 Quar ele est toute d'ybenus, .j. fust, que james n'i bet nus Que il porrisse ne...

... trope, as well as upon the imagery of the medieval forest that provides Aragon's structure. The title of the poem announces Aragon's intention to use these myths to create his own. On the surface, he evokes the legend of Merlin the Enchanter with all its symbolic richness: the cycle of the Grail, King...

... gen parlar qe·m fetz et al bel ris qan vi las denz de cristau e · l cors graile, delgat e fresc e lis, trop benestan en bliau— e la colors fo fresca e rosana— retinc mon cor dinz sa clau. Mas aic de joi que qi·m des Corrozana car a son grat m’en esgau. By the charming conversation...