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ENGL 321 Resources

Please note: I didn't create these pages and can't vouch for the information on them. Use with discretion! Page last updated in May 2006; let me know if you find broken links.

Kevin J. Harty's Arthurian Literature and Film Bibliography/Filmography: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/acpbibs/harty.htm

Michael Torregrossa's "King Arthur Forever" Arthurian film guide: http://home.att.net/~kingarthurforever/film.htm

Arthurian Multimedia clips from Bonnie Wheeler's site: http://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/kinga/artmulti.html

Eliot's The Wasteland, hypertext edition and Project Bartleby edition (straight text, no notes)

Malory's Le Morte D'arthur, online edition at UVa . If you want to order a paper edition of Malory, I recommend the Norton Critical Edition edited by Steve Shepherd (ISBN 0393974642), which you can pick up used on the Internet for about $10

Interlibrary Loan Books (may be consulted in Dr K's office):

• Kevin J. Harty, King Arthur on Film: New Essays on Arthurian Cinema (McFarland, 1999)
• Alan Lupack, ed. New Directions in Arthurian Studies. Arthurian Studies vol. 41 (Brewer, 2002)
• Kevin J. Harty, The Reel Middle Ages (McFarland, 1999)
• Susan Aronstein, Hollywood knights : Arthurian cinema and the politics of nostalgia (Palgrave/McMillan, 2005)

Slideshow from first day of class on evidence for a historical Arthur

Independent Film Channel's Multimedia Glossary (filmmaking terms): http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms.html

Dartmouth's Guide to Writing About Film: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/film.shtml

Other sources of information:

• The Camelot Project, University of Rochester--the biggie for online scholarly research on Arthur
• The Arthuriana Pedagogy Page--a gazillion resources for courses like ours
• Biographies of Arthurian Characters
• Early British Kingdoms' King Arthur Homepage--lots of history and who's who links
• Geoffrey Ashe's article on the historical origins of the Arthurian legend; requires Adobe Acrobat: "The Origins of the Arthurian Legend," Arthuriana 5.3 (1995): 1-24. http://faculty.smu.edu/bwheeler/ARTHUR/ashe.pdf
• Judy Shoaf's Growth of the Arthurian Legend timeline
• Arthurian Texts online (from TEAMS)
• Curtis Bobbitt's online bibliography of Arthurian novels at the University of Great Falls (Montana): http://web.archive.org/web/20060526141811/http://www.softworx.com/cbobbitt/226novel.htm
• A.P. Hamilton's "King Arthur: A Man for the Ages" site (voted "Best of the Web" by the BBC in October 2000)
• King Arthur in Myth and Art
• Bulfinch's Mythology: "The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur"
• British Heritage: "In Search of the Real King Arthur"
• "Arthurnet"--the online discussion list for people who study King Arthur seriously
• King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
• King Arthur and the Holy Grail
• Sources of the Legends of King Arthur
• Kathy Nichols (Pittsburgh State University)'s Arthurian Legends Illustrated site (lots of art); see also her Arthurian Literature and Art Part I and Arthurian Literature and Art Part II sites.
• Thomas Green (Exeter College)'s Arthurian Resources site (lots of links)
• Political maps of Europe, AD 900-1700
• Morgan LeFay: Images and Basic Information
• Queen Anna (Morgause)
• Camelot in Cornwall?
• The Mystic Realm of King Arthur
• Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Ultimate Web Guide to King Arthur & Scotland
• Was King Arthur Real and Did He Live in Wales?
• Download MP3s of "King Arthur, 'The Earth in Turquoise': A Rock Symphony"
• Merlin & Morgan Le Fay Barbie Dolls (really!)
• Southern Methodist University's "Arthurian Multimedia" site--with a ton of stuff--everything from art to MP3s.
• wav files from the Broadway (Burton/Andrews/Goulet) production of Camelot: http://www.broadwaymasterworks.com/bway/Camelot_main.html
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail multimedia goodies: http://www.intriguing.com/mp/holygrail.asp
• The Lego Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• How Darth Vader got his start
• and the greatest Arthurian mashup of all