Publisher's Synopsis
The ten essays in this collection identify and examine modern reworkings of identifiable source texts from the medieval and renaissance periods. The reasons for the modern adaptions depend variously on an individual author?s personal perspectives, the world view of his or her society, and the individual?s place in it. These essays therefore address issues such as why a particular model was chosen and how its retelling depends on the modern author/auteur?s misreading or rereading of medieval chivalric conventions. - - This book complements numerous studies of medievalism in the Enlightenment and Victorian eras by examining more recent adaptions of the much-studied Arthurian romances, but primarily extends the discussion on the nature of revivals to other medieval or renaissance chivalric texts, especially the Carolingian cycle epic. The collection includes not only literary retellings of medieval texts, but some in different media, i.e. theatre and cinema.
