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Un dydd yr oedd y bugail yn edrych ar ol eu ddefaid ar y mynydd. Cwympodd y ddafad dros y graig ac oedd yn sefyll ar siampa. Dringodd y bugail i lawr i achub y ddafad. Pan y cyrroedd a siamp fe welodd agoriad i ogof crwn fawr. Yn yr ogof yr oedd y brenin Arthur a ei marchog yn cysgu, ac y byddyn yn aros i gysgu dan y galwed i achub Cymru. Dringodd y bugail yn ol ac rhedodd i’w gartref i ddweud wrth eu deulu beth yr oedd wedi e weld. Ond pan aethom yn ol nid oedd dim ogof.
[One day the shepherd was looking after his sheep on the mountain. A sheep fell over the cliff and was standing on a ledge. The shepherd climbed down to save the sheep. When he reached the ledge he saw a large round cave. In the cave asleep was King Arthur and his knights, and they would remain asleep until called to save Wales. The shepherd climbed back and ran to his home to tell his family what he had seen. But when he went back there was no cave.]
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Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon (London, 1982).
Marion Wynne-Davies (ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Tales of the Clerk and the Wife of Bath’, (London, 1992), and Lady Charlotte Guest (ed. and trans.) The Mabinogion from the Welsh of the Lyfr Coch o Hergest (The Red Book of Hergest) in the Library of Jesus College, Oxford (London, 1877).
Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, (ed.) J.R.R. Tolkein and E.V. Gordon (Oxford, 1967); Sir Thomas Malory, Malory: Works, (ed.) Eugene Vinaver (Oxford, 1971); Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, (ed.) A. C. Hamilton (London, 1977).
Guest, The Mabinogion; Alfred Lord Tennyson, Tennyson: A Selected Edition, (ed.) Christopher Ricks (Harlow, Essex, 1989); Julia Margaret Cameron (illus.), Idylls of the King and Other Poems (London, 1874–5).
Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave (London, 1991), The Hollow Hills (London, 1974), The Last Enchantment (London, 1992); Bradley, Mists of Avalon; Jane Yolen, Merlin’s Booke (Minneapolis, 1986).
Judith Newton and Deborah Rosenfelt (eds.). Feminist Criticism and Social Change (London, 1985).
Ibid, p. xxvii.
Ibid, pp. xix and xxii.
Clive Thomson, ‘Mikhail Bakhtin and Contemporary Anglo-American Feminist Theory’, in Myriam Diaz-Diocartez (ed.). The Bakhtin Circle Today (Amsterdam, 1989), pp. 141–61.
Dale Bauer, Feminist Dialogics: A Theory of Failed Community (Albany, New York, 1988), p. xiv, and Lynne Pearce, Reading Dialogics (London, 1994), p. 204.
Bauer, Feminist Dialogics, p. xiv, and Pearce, Reading Dialogics, p. 204. Pearce, however, points out that such a revisionist strategy would be so radical that ‘critics must question whether or not it is useful preserving the term’ (p. 204).
Thomson, ‘Mikhail Bakhtin’, p. 158.
Newton and Rosenfelt, Feminist Criticism, p. xxii.
Catherine Belsey, ‘A Future for Materialist Feminist Criticism?’, in Valerie Wayne (ed.) The Matter of Difference. Materialist Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare (Hemel Hempstead, 1991), pp. 257–70; I am also indebted to Valerie Wayne’s own account of the development of materialist feminism in the Introduction to her book (pp. 1–26).
Anne Herrman, The Dialogic and Difference (New York, 1989), p. 148.
Pearce, ‘Dialogism and Gender’, Reading Dialogics, p. 100–11; p.100.
Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, (ed.) Michael Holoquist and (trans.) Caryl Emerson and Michael Holoquist (Austin, 1981), p. 84.
Ibid, p. 88.
For the idea and practice of gendering chronotopes see Pearce, Reading Dialogics, pp. 173–95 and 204–5.
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