I'm honestly not sure, but it's very ingrained. Twenty years ago I was halfway through Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, enjoying it thoroughly - and suddenly here came Arthur punting over the lake, and I rolled my eyes and nearly put the book down and it's still the one Kay that I haven't reread.
I kind of resent the saturation level Arthur has achieved; he seems to be everywhere, and I don't find him interesting. It may be an extension of my aversion to fanfic; indeed, I think the whole corpus is essentially fanfic. I'm not interested in fairy-tale retellings either, and I think that's the same thing again. I could only enjoy Gwyneth Jones' Bold as Love series as much as I did by resolutely ignoring all the Arthurian echoes.
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I'm honestly not sure, but it's very ingrained. Twenty years ago I was halfway through Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry, enjoying it thoroughly - and suddenly here came Arthur punting over the lake, and I rolled my eyes and nearly put the book down and it's still the one Kay that I haven't reread.
I kind of resent the saturation level Arthur has achieved; he seems to be everywhere, and I don't find him interesting. It may be an extension of my aversion to fanfic; indeed, I think the whole corpus is essentially fanfic. I'm not interested in fairy-tale retellings either, and I think that's the same thing again. I could only enjoy Gwyneth Jones' Bold as Love series as much as I did by resolutely ignoring all the Arthurian echoes.