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This chapter provides a brief conclusion that uses analysis of C. J. Cherryh’s Port Eternity to consider narratives, programming, and the Lady/Elaine. Adaptations of and allusions to the Lady/Elaine need to be understood for their contributions to cultural models and scripts. Whatever their stance on their pre-text(s), Lady/Elaine adaptations and allusions reiterate the importance of this figure as a way of imagining our options, whether to negotiate our relationship with the past, our relationship with social expectations of gender, or our expectations of art and the role of artists in our society.
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Howey, A.F. (2020). Postscript. In: Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat. Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47690-8_8
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