New Book: The Legacy of Courtly Literature: From Medieval to Contemporary Culture

Finally getting some information on this recent release from Palgrave Macmillan. The contents list is from WorldCat as the publisher site omits this important data. The book looks especially useful for Arthurian enthusiasts.

The Legacy of Courtly Literature: From Medieval to Contemporary Culture
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319607283

Editors: Nelson-Campbell, Deborah, Cholakian, Rouben (Eds.)
Series Title: Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Copyright: 2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Hardcover
$119.99 (listprice) price for USA (ISBN978-3-319-60728-3)

eBook
$89.00 (listprice) price for USA (ISBN978-3-319-60729-0)

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-60729-0

Number of Pages: XII, 234
Number of Illustrations and Tables: 9 b/w illustrations

• Covers a broad range of topics related to courtly literature including Shakespeare, the Harry Potter series, and the Japanese Imperial Court
• Traces the long established tradition of courtly literature from its original medieval roots to its influence on today’s literary and artistic culture
• Assembles the foremost experts on medieval courtly literature

About this book:

This fascinating volume examines the enduring influence of courtly tradition and courtly love, particularly in contemporary popular culture. The ten chapters explore topics including the impact of the medieval troubadour in modern love songs, the legacy of figures such as Tristan, Iseult, Lancelot, Guinevere, and Merlin in modern film and literature, and more generally, how courtly and chivalric conceptions of love have shaped the Western world’s conception of love, loyalty, honor, and adultery throughout history and to this day.


Table of Contents:

Introduction / Rouben Cholakian and Deborah Nelson-Campbell --
The Arthurian knight remythified Ovidian: the failures of courtly love in three late medieval glosses / Jane Chance --
Shakespeare's The merry wives of Windsor and the fabliau / Carol F. Heffernan --
Villon's dreams of the courtly / Rupert T. Pickens --
"You make me want to be a better man": courtly values revived in modern film / Raymond J. Cormier --
From Marie de France to J.K. Rowling: the weasel / Carol Dover --
Courtly literature: "yesterday" is today / Beverly J. Evans --
Variations on a transcultural phenomenon: the potion scene in four film versions of the legend of Tristan and Iseult / Joan Tasker Grimbert --
The musical incongruities of time travel in Arthurian film / John Haines --
The fool and the wise man: the legacy of the two Merlins in modern culture / Natalia I. Petrovskaia --
A legacy of Japanese courtly literature: the Imperial New Year Poetry Recitation Party / Yuko Tagaya --
Bibliography --
Index.



About the editors:

Deborah Nelson-Campbell is Professor of French Studies at Rice University, USA.

Rouben Cholakian is Professor Emeritus of French at Hamilton College, USA.