Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur

Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur
Title Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur PDF eBook
Author Siobhán M. Wyatt
Publisher Springer
Pages 210
Release 2016-10-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319342045

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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.

Le Morte Darthur

Le Morte Darthur
Title Le Morte Darthur PDF eBook
Author Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher
Pages 560
Release 1903
Genre Arthurian romances
ISBN

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A New Companion to Malory

A New Companion to Malory
Title A New Companion to Malory PDF eBook
Author Megan G. Leitch
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 346
Release 2019
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1843845237

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

Re-viewing Le Morte Darthur

Re-viewing Le Morte Darthur
Title Re-viewing Le Morte Darthur PDF eBook
Author Kevin Sean Whetter
Publisher DS Brewer
Pages 198
Release 2005
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9781843840350

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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.

Arthurian Literature XXXVII

Arthurian Literature XXXVII
Title Arthurian Literature XXXVII PDF eBook
Author Megan G. Leitch
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 251
Release 2022-06-14
Genre
ISBN 1843846357

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New and fresh assessments of Malory's Morte Darthur.

Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur
Title Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur PDF eBook
Author Tory Pearman
Publisher Routledge
Pages 376
Release 2018-10-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0429818149

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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.

Ethics in the Arthurian Legend

Ethics in the Arthurian Legend
Title Ethics in the Arthurian Legend PDF eBook
Author Melissa Ridley Elmes
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 421
Release 2023-07-11
Genre
ISBN 184384687X

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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.