Table of Contents
Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Select Bibliography, Tristan: The Celtic and Oriental Material Re-examined, Love and the New Patriarchy: Tristan and Isolde, How Lovers Lie Together: Infidelity and Fictive Discourse in the Roman de Tristan, The Representation of the Lovers' Death: Thomas' Tristan as Open Text, The Glass Palace in the Folie d'Oxford, Tristan the Artist in Gottfried's Poem, Gottfried von Strassburg: Tristan and the Arthurian Tradition, La Parole amoureuse: Amorous Discourse in the Prose Tristan, Radix Amoris: The Tavola Ritonda and Its Response to Dante's Paolo and Francesca, Malory's "Tale of Sir Tristram": Source and Setting Reconsidered, Tristan in Medieval Art, Swinburne's Tristram of Lyonesse: Visionary and Courtly Epic, "That Most Beautiful of Dreams": Tristram and Isoud in British Art of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde: Opera as Symphonic Poem, Wagner and Decadence, "This too you ought to read": Bédier's Roman de Tristan et Iseut, Tristram the Transcendent, Cocteau's Tristan and Iseut: A Case of Overmuch Respect, Tristan and Isolde in Modern Literature: L'éternel retour
