M. Brockington, The Motif of the Separating Sword in World Art and Literature: A Study of Its Origins and Development

BROCKINGTON, Mary, The Motif of the Separating Sword in World Art and Literature: A Study of Its Origins and Development, Lewiston / Ceredigion, Mellen Press, 2008, 320 p.
ISBN 978-0-7734-4999-2

RÉSUMÉ

A re-examination “the Separating Sword” that demonstrates the complexity of intertextual influences across linguistic and cultural boundaries.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Foreword by Professor Jane H.M. Taylor
Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Prologue: Discovery: Tristran, Yseut and Marc

1. God and man: Semitic Origins

2. Misunderstanding and Misunderstood: Indic Languages

3. Man and man: Transmission to Western Europe

4. Enter the Woman: Brynhild Sigurd

5. Purity Preserved

6. Adultery, Discovery and Consequences: Tristran and Yseut

7. Representation and Re-presentation: Unending Evolution

Epilogue: Re-discovery: Thatcher and Gorbachev

Notes

Appendix I: The Separating Sword: Occurrences of Thompson motif T 351

Appendix II: Modern Tristran Adaptations: Bibliographies and Surveys

Bibliography

Index