Arthurian Afterlives
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organizer Name
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Organizer Affiliation
Appalachian State Univ.
Presider Name
Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Paper Title 1
Joseph of Arimathea: From No Life to Fantastic Afterlife
Presenter 1 Name
Janina P. Traxler
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Manchester Univ.
Paper Title 2
Feirefiz, Ferumbras, and Finn: Motifs of the Converted Saracen in Parzival, The Sultan of Babylon, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Presenter 2 Name
Megan B. Abrahamson
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
Paper Title 3
The Homeless, Apocalypse Survivors, Gamers, James Bond, and a Shark in King Arthur's Court: Recent Developments in Cinema Arthuriana
Presenter 3 Name
Kevin J. Harty
Presenter 3 Affiliation
La Salle Univ.
Paper Title 4
They Did the Mash; They Did the Arthurian Monster Mash: Mergers of the Matter of Britain and Lovecraft’s Cthulhuan Mythos
Presenter 4 Name
Michael A. Torregrossa
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Start Date
10-5-2019 1:30 PM
Session Location
Fetzer 1010
Description
Arthurian Afterlives - Session of papers
The dynamism, permutation and adaptation of popular narratives, the accumulation of afterlives, are well known to the middle ages. For this session, we borrow the term from Ashton and Kline’s recent volume entitled Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (Palgrave 2012). Given contemporary culture’s “enormous and continued fascination with the highly pleasurable myths of King Arthur and Robin Hood,” (4) Popular extension, adaptation, and appropriation have been a hallmark of Arthurian literature from its beginnings to the present day. For this session, we will seek 3-4 papers that address ways in which various aspects of Arthurian literature (figures, intertexts, themes, objects) have taken new and perhaps unexpected paths (music, film, the visual arts, new media). These new paths and new approaches to older literature allow audiences to invest variously in (re)claiming that older story. Whether medieval or post-medieval, Arthurian afterlives reveal creative responses across media, across genres, and across languages over time. Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Arthurian Afterlives
Fetzer 1010
Arthurian Afterlives - Session of papers
The dynamism, permutation and adaptation of popular narratives, the accumulation of afterlives, are well known to the middle ages. For this session, we borrow the term from Ashton and Kline’s recent volume entitled Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (Palgrave 2012). Given contemporary culture’s “enormous and continued fascination with the highly pleasurable myths of King Arthur and Robin Hood,” (4) Popular extension, adaptation, and appropriation have been a hallmark of Arthurian literature from its beginnings to the present day. For this session, we will seek 3-4 papers that address ways in which various aspects of Arthurian literature (figures, intertexts, themes, objects) have taken new and perhaps unexpected paths (music, film, the visual arts, new media). These new paths and new approaches to older literature allow audiences to invest variously in (re)claiming that older story. Whether medieval or post-medieval, Arthurian afterlives reveal creative responses across media, across genres, and across languages over time. Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand