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"This is a wide-ranging overview of numerous transformations of the King Arthur Romance as it grew out of medieval stories, most famously brought together in Mallory's ""Mort de Arthur"", into contemporary expressions ranging from fantasies to comic books, science fiction films, and television series. This makes it an excellent reference for those wanting intertextual comparisons and an exploration of how a story that was originally used by the Catholic Church to attempt to reform real-life knights in western Europe, by providing an image of these rough warriors more in line with church policies, gets revised to express contemporary, often non-Christian views. It has a clear feminist voice, consistently highlighting underlying masculine assumptions built into the story. Of course, the Catholic Church held such assumptions, so it is not surprising to find them in the main Romances they embraced (the etymology of romance literally means ""little stories out of Rome meant to spread the word of Christianity). [...] I applaud books such as this study for helping all of us become more sensitive to outdated views. Dr. Harry Eiss Eastern Michigan University"

This is a wide-ranging overview of numerous transformations of the King Arthur Romance as it grew out of medieval stories, most famously brought together in Mallory's Mort de Arthur , into contemporary expressions ranging from fantasies to comic books, science fiction films, and television series. This makes it an excellent reference for those wanting intertextual comparisons and an exploration of how a story that was originally used by the Catholic Church to attempt to reform real-life knights in western Europe, by providing an image of these rough warriors more in line with church policies, gets revised to express contemporary, often non-Christian views. It has a clear feminist voice, consistently highlighting underlying masculine assumptions built into the story. Of course, the Catholic Church held such assumptions, so it is not surprising to find them in the main Romances they embraced (the etymology of romance literally means little stories out of Rome meant to spread the word of Christianity). [...] I applaud books such as this study for helping all of us become more sensitive to outdated views. Dr. Harry Eiss Eastern Michigan University

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Susan Austin has worked at Landmark College, Vermont, for over a decade. There, she pursues her research interests, which include film adaptations of literature and modern and contemporary fiction. She teaches a course that uses Arthurian and related materials as sources for analysis and synthesis essays, and then sends students off to research and write about related topics in literature, history, archaeology, science, and popular culture. She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Associate Professor Austin has presented several papers at the Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference in the last decade and she has chaired five sessions, one of which is the basis for this volume.

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