The Grail Legend in Modern Literature

From: Arthuriana | Date: April 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

JOHN B. MARINO, The Grail Legend in Modern Literature. Arthurian Studies LIX. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004. Pp. vi, 175. ISBN: 1-84384-022-7. $70.

John B. Marino's volume on the grail legend in modern literature is longer on ambition than on delivery. Aiming to trace emergent forms of grail scholarship into the literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Marino displays broad knowledge of the relevant textual histories, but fails to treat enough literature to keep the reader of modern literature interested. The treatment of modern literature is delayed by a fourteen-page ...

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