Women Of Words In Le Morte Darthur

Author : Siobhán M. Wyatt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319342047

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Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur by Siobhán M. Wyatt Pdf

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 : Megan G. Leitch,Cory James Rushton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845232

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A New Companion to Malory by Megan G. Leitch,Cory James Rushton Pdf

A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

Author : Tory Pearman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429818141

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Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur by Tory Pearman Pdf

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.

Author : Kevin Sean Whetter,Raluca L. Radulescu
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1843840359

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Re-viewing Le Morte Darthur by Kevin Sean Whetter,Raluca L. Radulescu Pdf

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 : Megan G. Leitch,Kevin S. Whetter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846352

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Arthurian Literature XXXVII by Megan G. Leitch,Kevin S. Whetter Pdf

New and fresh assessments of Malory's Morte Darthur.

Author : Megan G Leitch,Kevin S Whetter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847182

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Arthurian Literature XXXIX by Megan G Leitch,Kevin S Whetter Pdf

"Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT This volume is a special issue dedicated to Professor Elizabeth Archibald, who has had such an impact on, and made so many significant contributions to, the field of Arthurian Studies. It maintains its tradition of diverse approaches to the Arthurian tradition - albeit on this occasion with a particular focus on Malory, appropriately reflecting one of Professor Archibald's main interests. It starts with the essay awarded this year's D.S. Brewer Prize for a contribution by an early career scholar, which considers the little-known debt owed by early modern sailors to Arthurian knighthood and pageantry. The essays that follow begin with a wide-ranging account of manuscript decorations and annotations in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia, before turning to the Evil Custom trope in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Further contributions explore the formalities of requests and conditions in Malory's '"Tale of Gareth", emotional excess and magical transformation in several scenes across the Morte Darthur, tensions between public and private and self and identity in Malory's "Sankgreal", and friction between the (external and imposed) law and (internal and subjective but honourable) code of chivalry, especially apparent in Malory's final Tales. The last article examines the ways in which Mordred's origins in modern Arthurian fiction build on Malory's false, or forgotten, promise to relate Mordred's upbringing. The volume closes with a short tribute to Elizabeth Archibald, highlighting her leadership in the field and her encouragement of scholarly collaboration and community.

Author : Thomas Malory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798211185371

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Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory Pdf

The most famous English-language compilation of Arthurian legends ever issued. Originally titled "The hoole booke of kyng Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the rounde table," this work was first published in 1485, it was one of the last major books to be published in Britain before the introduction of the printing press by William Caxton. It was also one of the first books to be published by Caxton, who also acted as editor for the work. This is not a "mass market" edition but a high quality publication printed on white paper. The storyline, drawn partly from older Latin, Welsh, French, German, Norse and even Dutch epics, takes place in Britain and France during the fall of the Western Roman Empire. King Arthur, a legendary Celtic warrior-king, serves as a symbol for the final defeat of Rome, and also the emergence of the Medieval Courtly culture. Other events in the narrative take place in Rome and the Tigris-Euphrates river basin. The author divided the text into eight books, each dealing with a particular theme. Caxton broke these up further into twenty-one books. This Volume II of Le Morte d'Arthur contains Caxton's Books X-XXI.

Author : Melissa Ridley Elmes,Evelyn Meyer,Elizabeth Archibald,Nichole Burgdorf
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781843846871

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Ethics in the Arthurian Legend by Melissa Ridley Elmes,Evelyn Meyer,Elizabeth Archibald,Nichole Burgdorf Pdf

An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature. From its earliest days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of good kingship, the behaviours of a ruling class, and their effects on communities, societies, and nations, both locally and in imperial and colonizing contexts. Ethical considerations inform and are informed by local anxieties tied to questions of power and identity, especially where leadership, service, and governance are concerned; they provide a framework for understanding how the texts operate as didactic and critical tools of these subjects. This book brings together chapters drawing on English, Welsh, German, Dutch, French, and Norse iterations of the Arthurian legend, and bridging premodern and modern temporalities, to investigate the representation of ethics in Arthurian literature across interdisciplinary and transhistorical lines. They engage a variety of methodologies, including gender, critical race theory, philology, literature and the law, translation theory, game studies, comparative, critical, and close reading, and modern editorial and authorial practices. Texts interrogated range from Culhwch and Olwen to Parzival, Roman van Walewein, Tristrams Saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte Darthur. As a whole, the approaches and findings in this volume attest to the continued value and importance of the Arthurian legend and its scholarship as a vibrant field through which to locate and understand the many ways in which medieval literature continues to inform modern sensibilities and institutions, particularly where the matter of ethics is concerned.

Author : K. Hodges
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403979322

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Forging Chivalric Communities in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur by K. Hodges Pdf

Forging Chivalric Communities in Marlory's Morte D'Arthur shows that Malory treats chivalry not as a static institution but as a dynamic, continually evolving ideal. Le Morte D'arthur is structured to trace how communities and individuals adapt or create chivalric codes for their own purposes; in turn, codes of chivalry shape groups and their customs. Knights' loyalties are torn not just between lords and lovers but also between the different codes of chivalry and between different communities. Women, too, choose among the different roles they are asked to play as queens, counsellors, and even quasi-knights.

Author : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460402740

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Le Morte Darthur: Selections by Sir Thomas Malory Pdf

Arguably no medieval English literary work has had as far and wide a reach as Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur; among the many adaptations are Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, and the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot. It might also be argued that the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century tradition of fantasy literature—from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to George Lucas’s Star Wars and beyond—owes much to the Arthurian tradition, rooted in English most strongly in Malory’s Morte Darthur. Yet there has been no edition that draws on the results of the past generation’s scholarship while presenting Malory’s work in a form that is at once true to the original and accessible to the modern reader. This new edition, which expands on the revised and expanded selection of Malory material that will be included in the third edition of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, is all of those things. The extensive selections include most of the material concerning Launcelot, and all of the Morte’s two final tales; the language has been partially modernized to make the text accessible to the modern reader, while retaining the flavor of the original; the text has been carefully prepared from the Winchester manuscript; and the annotations are extensive.

Author : Dorsey Armstrong
Publisher : Orange Grove Texts Plus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 1616101040

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Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte D'Arthur by Dorsey Armstrong Pdf

"A lively and thought-provoking study of gender in the Arthurian community. It is at once theoretically sophisticated and highly readable, full of insightful close readings yet conscious of larger patterns of analysis."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon College Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur reveals, for the first time in a book-length study, how Thomas Malory's unique approach to gender identity in his revisions of earlier Arthurian works produces a text entirely unlike others in the canon of medieval romance. Armstrong argues that issues of masculine and feminine gender identity play more critical, central roles in Le Morte d'Arthur than they do in Malory's sources or other chivalric literature. Effectively merging contemporary gender and feminist criticism with careful analysis of Malory's sources, Armstrong uncovers how gender ideals established in the early pages of the text subsequently inspire and mediate the action of the narrative; moreover, her analysis shows how such ideals become progressively more divisive and destructive as Le Morte d'Arthur moves toward its inevitable conclusion. Recent articles and essays have shed much-needed light on various individual aspects of gender in Malory's text. However, only a sustained, book-length analysis like Armstrong's can fully articulate the relationships of gender to other chivalric ideals, such as mercy and martial prowess, that become increasingly complex as the narrative progresses. This study examines not only the most frequently read portions of the Morte but also those sections that often are regarded as extraneous to the primary narrative, such as the Tristram, Gareth, and Roman War episodes. By showing how gender operates in both the well-known and the less-appreciated portions of Malory's work, Gender and the Chivalric Community demonstrates that his text possesses far more narrative unity than previously thought. Armstrong provides a sophisticated yet accessible approach to the study of gender and its relation to other chivalric ideals in Le Morte d'Arthur, offering important insights for scholars and students of medieval romance, Malory, Arthurian literature, and gender and feminist criticism. Dorsey Armstrong is assistant professor of medieval literature at Purdue University. Her work has most recently appeared in Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and On Arthurian Women: Essays in Honor of Maureen Fries.

Author : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9780192824202

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Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory Pdf

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 : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : MSU:31293102735721

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Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory Pdf

Author : Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782765901235

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Le Morte D'Arthur (Illustrated) by Sir Thomas Malory Pdf

First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is today perhaps the best-known work of Arthurian literature in English. Many modern Arthurian writers have used Malory as their principal source, including T. H. White in his popular The Once and Future King and Tennyson in The Idylls of the King.

Author : Thomas Malory
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1015674097

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Le Morte D'Arthur; Volume 1 by Thomas Malory Pdf

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