Raymond H. Thompson
Raymond H. Thompson is a Canadian scholar of medieval literature specializing in King Arthur and the Matter of Britain, and in the reinterpretation of this material in modern literature. He is a professor emeritus in the Department of English at Acadia University in Canada.{{cite web|url=https://english.acadiau.ca/faculty-staff.html|title=Faculty & Staff|work=English|publisher=Acadia University|access-date=2022-03-03}}
Thompson completed his Ph.D. in 1969 at the University of Alberta, with the dissertation Sir Gawain and heroic tradition: a study of the influence of changing heroic ideals upon the reputation of Gawain in the medieval literature of France and Britain. At that time, he already listed his academic affiliation with Acadia University.{{cite web|url=https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/616dc12a-5ad3-4fb0-8ca4-d9c44c9e7c66/view/d023f8f4-dc74-4241-9eac-f8f80df15a81/NK04982.pdf|title=Sir Gawain and heroic tradition: a study of the influence of changing heroic ideals upon the reputation of Gawain in the medieval literature of France and Britain|publisher=University of Alberta|year=1969|access-date=2022-03-03}} He was Scholar Guest of Honor at the 20th Annual Mythopoeic Conference in Vancouver, 1989.{{sfn|Farrell|1989}}
''Pendragon''
Thompson was brought on by Chaosium in 1997 as an editor to select and package their Pendragon fiction line.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|356}} However, Chaosium printed only two books before they lost the rights to the line, which Green Knight Publishing subsequently picked up.{{rp|356}}
Books
Thompson's books include:
- Gordon R. Dickson: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography (G. K. Hall, 1983)Review of Gordon R. Dickson: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography:
- {{cite journal | last = Wolfe | first = Gary K. | date = March 1984 | issue = 1 | journal = Science Fiction Studies | jstor = 4239597 | pages = 95–96 | title = A valuable record | volume = 11}}
- The Return from Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction (Greenwood Press, 1985)Reviews of The Return from Avalon:
- {{cite journal | last = Basney | first = Lionel | date = Winter 1985 | issue = 4 | journal = Modern Fiction Studies | jstor = 26282294 | pages = 848–852 | title = none | volume = 31| doi = 10.1353/mfs.0.1233 }}
- {{cite journal | last = Cochran | first = Rebecca | date = Fall 1986 | id = {{ProQuest | 1290773590}} | issue = 4 | journal = Philological Quarterly | pages = 537–539 | title = none | volume = 65}}
- {{cite journal | last = Dwyer | first = Richard | date = Fall 1985 | issue = 1 | journal = Quondam et Futurus | jstor = 27869877 | pages = 7–9 | title = Arthurian Legend and Science Fiction | volume = 6}} Reprinted from Science Fiction Studies 12: 335–336, 1985, {{JSTOR | 4239709}}.
- {{cite journal | last = Farrell | first = Eleanor M. | date = June 1989 | issue = 6 | journal = Mythprint | title = Raymond H. Thompson and The Return from Avalon: An Appreciation | url = https://www.electroephemera.com/thompson.html | volume = 26}}
- {{cite journal | last = Garratt | first = Peter T. | date = Fall 1986 | id = {{ProQuest | 1312073927}} | journal = Foundation | pages = 81–82 | title = none}}
- The Arthurian Encyclopedia (with Norris J. Lacy, Geoffrey Ashe, Sandra Ness Ihle, and Marianne E. Kalinke, Garland, 1986)Reviews of The Arthurian Encyclopedia:
- {{cite journal | last = Classen | first = Albrecht | journal = Mediaevistik | jstor = 42584356 | pages = 273–275 | title = none | volume = 2 | year = 1989}}
- {{cite journal | last = Field | first = Rosalind | date = April 1988 | doi = 10.2307/2853268 | issue = 2 | journal = Speculum | jstor = 2853268 | pages = 426–428 | title = none | volume = 63}}
- {{cite journal | last = Vielliard | first = Françoise | date = July–December 1990 | issue = 2 | journal = Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes | jstor = 42970081 | pages = 502–503 | title = none | volume = 148}}
- Merlin: A Casebook (with Peter H. Goodrich, Routledge, 2003)Reviews of Merlin: A Casebook:
- {{cite journal | last = Breeze | first = Andrew | date = October 2005 | issue = 4 | journal = The Modern Language Review | jstor = 3737735 | pages = 1082–1084 | title = none | volume = 100| doi = 10.1353/mlr.2005.0132 | s2cid = 258103390 }}
- {{cite journal | last = Sullivan | first = C. W. III | date = Fall 2004 | issue = 3 | journal = Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts | jstor = 43310258 | pages = 279–280 | title = none | volume = 15}}
- Gawain: A Casebook (with Keith Busby, Routledge, 2006)Reviews of Gawain: A Casebook:
- {{cite journal | last = Goodrich | first = Peter H. | date = Winter 2006 | issue = 4 | journal = Arthuriana | jstor = 27870810 | pages = 111–113 | title = none | volume = 16| doi = 10.1353/art.2006.0058 | s2cid = 160250093 }}
- {{cite journal | doi = 10.2307/43632793 | issue = 2 | journal = Medium Ævum | jstor = 43632793 | page = 367 | title = Shorter notices | volume = 75 | year = 2006}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?76901 Raymond H. Thompson] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- [http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=10627 Raymond H. Thompson :: Pen & Paper RPG Database] [https://web.archive.org/web/20050227232642/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=10627 archive]
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