Malory's 'Morte D'Arthur': Remaking Arthurian Tradition
(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)
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This study innovatively explores how Malory's Morte D'Arthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions which the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Negotiating these influences, Malory transforms constructions of masculine heroism, especially in the presentation of Launcelot, and exposes the tensions and disillusions of the Arthurian project. The Morte poignantly conveys a desire for integrity in narrative and subject-matter, but at the same time tests literary conceptualizations of history, nationalism, gender and selfhood, and considers the failures of social and legal institutionalizations of violence, in a critique of literary form and of social order.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312229984
ISBN13:9780312229986
Release Date:May 2002
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:264 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 8.5"
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