Over the next couple of days, I plan to write a review of a book I just finished reading. It's a work of real literary scholarship about the sources and development of the legend of the Grail, and I plan on using that to make further vicious comments about the Da Vinci Code madness. It will be posted in my book journal (bibliogramma) if you care to check there at some point.
One of the reasons this Mary=Grail stuff bothers me so much is that my specialty back in grad school was Arthurian literature. I have almost certainly forgotten more about the real literary history of the concept of the Holy Grail than Dan Brown has ever known.
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Date: 2006-05-08 10:29 pm (UTC)Over the next couple of days, I plan to write a review of a book I just finished reading. It's a work of real literary scholarship about the sources and development of the legend of the Grail, and I plan on using that to make further vicious comments about the Da Vinci Code madness. It will be posted in my book journal (
One of the reasons this Mary=Grail stuff bothers me so much is that my specialty back in grad school was Arthurian literature. I have almost certainly forgotten more about the real literary history of the concept of the Holy Grail than Dan Brown has ever known.