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Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism

Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism Arthurian myth remains as popular in the twenty-first century as it was in the ninth, fifteenth or even nineteenth centuries. Arthur and his various companions and members of the court – along with the spaces and objects associated with them – are ubiquitous in the modern era, appearing in our texts, on our screens and even in our politics. As our concerns and technologies shift, so, too, do the ways in which Arthuriana appears and makes meaning.The following articles demonstrate how modern artists return to the Middle Ages, specifically to the Arthurian world, to craft tales that speak to present concerns, from race, gender and violence to cultural identity and desire and consent. As our contributors reveal, storytellers continue to articulate new ways of seeing the medieval, and ourselves, in various literary, visual and blended media, including drama, verse, young adult literature, speculative fiction, graphic novels and film.The issue opens with Hannah Piercy, who charts the post-medieval afterlife of two secondary Arthurian characters, Pelleas and Ettarde, in nineteenth and twentieth-century texts, demonstrating how authors adapt and respond to a network of sources and influences, medieval and contemporary, as they articulate ideas about desire, consent and misogyny. These themes resonate with Kevin http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism

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de Gruyter
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© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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2196-9353
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10.1515/jias-2022-0002
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Abstract

Arthurian myth remains as popular in the twenty-first century as it was in the ninth, fifteenth or even nineteenth centuries. Arthur and his various companions and members of the court – along with the spaces and objects associated with them – are ubiquitous in the modern era, appearing in our texts, on our screens and even in our politics. As our concerns and technologies shift, so, too, do the ways in which Arthuriana appears and makes meaning.The following articles demonstrate how modern artists return to the Middle Ages, specifically to the Arthurian world, to craft tales that speak to present concerns, from race, gender and violence to cultural identity and desire and consent. As our contributors reveal, storytellers continue to articulate new ways of seeing the medieval, and ourselves, in various literary, visual and blended media, including drama, verse, young adult literature, speculative fiction, graphic novels and film.The issue opens with Hannah Piercy, who charts the post-medieval afterlife of two secondary Arthurian characters, Pelleas and Ettarde, in nineteenth and twentieth-century texts, demonstrating how authors adapt and respond to a network of sources and influences, medieval and contemporary, as they articulate ideas about desire, consent and misogyny. These themes resonate with Kevin

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2022

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