Wilson, Anne The Magical Quest : The Use of Magic in Arthurian Romance , UK: Manchester University Press, 1988.

First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 0719023734 Dust jacket complete,unclipped. Brown cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership inscription. 242 pages clean and tight. Ann Wilson's book traces magical plots in Chretien de Troyes' Yvain and Grail story, Perceval, together with their German, English and Welsh counterparts, and also in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with text quoted in the original languages and in English. These investigations are conducted within the larger context of a discus sion of the magical story as it has appeared in earlier and later times, creating the problems o f both the 'Pericles' tradition and Wuthering Heights. The magical quest demonstrates a new systematic approach to the problems in the text. This is a meticulous explration of the uneasy relationship between the plot's hidden purpose and the author's developments followed by an equally careful tracing in the text of the magical logic...." (Book ref. 130043)  £25.00

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