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The Cycling and Recycling of the Arthurian Myth in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King

Walker, Alison L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275590980

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2010, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, English (Arts and Sciences).
The Arthurian myth is a complex system of tales, each of which focuses on some aspect of the legendary King Arthur, his Knights of the Round Table, or the royal court at Camelot. The power of the myth is that it is mutable, recyclable, and recursive. The purpose of this thesis is to examine and evaluates these elements of the myth and how they have evolved from the medieval era to the Victorian era. The inquiry will focus primarily on Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King and the ways in which he implemented recursive circles and cycles stylistically, structurally, and narratively throughout his individual idylls and the complete poem to wholly express the self-reflexive, appropriative, and contemporary natures of the Arthurian myth. Finally, the investigation moves toward Tennyson's contributions to the myth and the ways authors continued to experiment artistically with the myth into the twenty-first century.
Dutton Marsha (Advisor)
Matthew VanWinkle (Committee Member)
Janis Holm (Committee Member)
99 p.
English literature; Folklore; History; Literature
cycles; Alfred Tennyson; Arthurian Myth; Idylls of the King; contemporary; recursive; King Arthur; Victorian Poetry

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  • Walker, A. L. (2010). The Cycling and Recycling of the Arthurian Myth in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275590980

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walker, Alison. The Cycling and Recycling of the Arthurian Myth in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. 2010. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275590980.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walker, Alison. "The Cycling and Recycling of the Arthurian Myth in Alfred Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275590980

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