Tristan and Isolde

A substantial introduction traces the Tristan and Isolde legend from the twelfth century to the present, emphasizing literary versions, but also surveying the legend's sources and its appearance in the visual arts, music and film. The nineteen essays are a mix of new, new English, revised, and 'classic'. It contains an extensive bibliography. <p>Preface, Norris J. Lacy <br> Introduction, Joan Tasker Grimbert <br> Acknowledgements <br> Select Bibliography <br> Tristan: The Celtic and Oriental Material Re-examined, W.J. McCann <br> Love and the New Patriarchy: <em>Tristan and Isolde</em>, Leslie W. Rabine <br> How Lovers Lie Together: Infidelity and Fictive Discourse in the <em>Roman de Tristan</em>, E. Jane Burns <br> The Representation of the Lover's Death: Thomas' <em>Tristan</em> as Open Text, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner <br> The Glass Palace in the <em>Folie d'Oxford</em>, Jean-Charles Payen <br> Tristan the Artist in Gottfried's Poem, W.T.H. Jackson <br> Gottfried von Strassburg: <em>Tristan</em> and the Arthurian Tradition. William C. McDonald <br><em>La Parole amoureuse:</em><em>Amorous Discourse in the Prose Tristan</em>, Emmanuéle Baumgartner <br> Radix Amoris: The <em>Travola Ritonda</em> and Its Response to Dante's Paolo and Francesca, Donald L. Hoffman <br> Malory's Tale of Sir Tristram: Source and Setting Reconsidered, Dhira B. Mahoney <br> Tristan in Medieval Art, Julia Walworth <br> Swinburne's <em>Tristram of</em><em>Lyonesse</em>: Visionary and Courtly Epic, Anthony H. Harrison <br> That Most Beautiful of Dreams: Tristram and Isoud in British Art of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Christine Poulson <br> Wagner's <em>Tristan and Isolde</em>: Opera as Symphonic Poem, Joseph Kerman <br> Wagner and Decadence, Raymond Furness <br> This Too You Ought to Read: Bédier's <em>Roman de Tristan et Iseut</em>, Edward J. Gallagher <br> Tristram the Transcendent, Frederic Yves Carpenter <br> Cocteau's Tristan and Iseut: A Case of Overmuch Respect, Stephen Maddux <br> Tristan and Isolde in Modern Literature: L'éternal retour, Michael S. Batts</p>