Abstract
Introduction. Dhira B. Mahoney. The quest of origins, Glenys Witchard Goetinck. The central symbol of the legend: the Grail as vessel, Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz. Perceval or Le Conte du Graal, Jean Frappier. Punishment in the perlesvaus: the theme of the waste land, A. J. Kennedy. Seeing the Grail: prologomena to a study of the Grail in the Queste and Estoire , Alison Stones. A story of interpretations: the Quest del Saint Graal as metaliterature, Lawrence N. de Looze. Dying to get to Sarras: Perceval's sister and the Grail quest, Janina Traxler. The symbolism of the Grail in Wolfram von Eschenbach, Friedrich Ranke. The truest and holiest tale: Malory's transformation of La Quest del Saint Graal, Dhira B. Mahoney. Chivalric nationalism and the Holy Grail in John Hardyng's chronicle, Felicity Riddy. Scandals of faith and gender in Tennyson's Grail poems, Linda Hughes. Pure hearts and clean hands: the Victorians and the Grail, Debra N. Mancoff. From Logres to Carbonek: the Arthuriad of Charles Williams, Karl Heinz Goller, Walker Percy's Grail, J. Donald Crowley and Sue Mitchell Crowley. The Grail in modern fiction: sacred symbol in a secular age, Raymond H. Thompson. Hollywood's new Weston: the Grail myth in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and John Boorman's Excalibur, Martin Shichtman.
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