Author: Kevin Sean Whetter
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840350
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The essays in this collection present a range of new ideas and approaches in Malory studies, looking again as the title suggests] at several of the most debated critical points. A number of articles focus closely on the implications of the production of the text, ranging from the repercussions of the working habits of the Winchester scribes, as well as of Malory's printers and editors, to a reassessment of Caxton's Preface. There are also nuanced readings of geography and politics in the Morte Darthur and its fifteenth-century contexts, and analyses of text and context in relation to the role of women, character and theme in the Morte, including the important questions of worshyp and mesure, as well as the issues of coherence and genre.
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Author: Siobhán M. Wyatt
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319342045
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey of the alterations Malory made to female characters in his source texts. Through detailed comparisons with both Old French and Middle English material, Siobhán M. Wyatt discusses how Malory radically altered his French and English source texts to create a gendered pattern in the reliability of speech, depicting female discourse as valuable and truthful. Malory’s authorial crafting indicates his preference for a certain “type” of female character: self-governing, opinionated, and strong. Simultaneously, the portrayal of this very readable “type” yields characterization. While late medieval court records indicate an increasingly negative attitude towards female speech and a tendency to punish vociferous women as “scolds,” Malory makes the words of chiding damsels constructive. While his contemporary writers suppress the powers of magical women, Malory empowers his enchantress characters; while the authors of his French source texts accentuate Guinevere’s flaws, Malory portrays her with sympathy.
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192824201
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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This English version of the stories of King Arthur, "Le Morte D'Arthur" was completed in 1469-70 by Sir Thomas Malory. Malory charts the tragic disintegration of the fellowship of the Round Table, destroyed from within by warring factions.
Author: Thomas Malory
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015674097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1602353840
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
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Dorsey Armstrong provides a new, Modern English translation of the MORTE DARTHUR that portrays the holistic and comprehensive unity of the text as a whole, as suggested by the structure of Caxton’s print, but that is based primarily on the Winchester Manuscript, which offers the most complete and accurate version of Malory’s narrative. This translation makes one of the most compelling and important texts in the Arthurian tradition easily accessible to everyone—from high school students to Arthurian scholars. In addition to the complete text, Armstrong includes an introduction that discusses Malory’s sources and the long-running debate surrounding the manuscript and print versions of the narrative. For ease of use, the text is keyed to both William Caxton’s print version and the manuscript version edited by Eugène Vinaver. A detailed index is also included.
Author: Dr. Molly Martin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843842424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Fresh study of the intricate roles played by gender, visibility, and the idea of romance in Malory's Morte.
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264634
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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This work begins with the birth of Arthur and the establishment of his kingdom and the fellowship of knights. It describes courtly society which is outwardly secure and successful, but which is, in reality, torn by dissent and ultimately treachery.
Author: Kevin Sean Whetter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843844532
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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An examination of the rubricated letters in the Morte makes a convincing case for the design being by Malory himself.
Author: Tory Pearman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429818149
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.
