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Takes Tennyson’s first Arthurian poem as a classic instance of eternal recurrence, motivated by both the knight’s repeated failure to cast away the sword and by Arthur’s reputed return to his kingdom. Demonstrates how the fabled sword Excalibur functions as an ornate art object within a system of commercial exchange.
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Ebbatson, R. (2016). Tennyson’s Morte d’Arthur: The Landscape of Eternal Return. In: Landscapes of Eternal Return. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32838-6_4
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