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Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes
Edited by K. S. Whetter
Edited by Raluca L. Radulescu


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.

 

DETAILS

6 b/w illustrations
184 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
13 digit ISBN: 9781843840350
Binding: Hardback
First published: 15/Feb/2005
Price: 80.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Series: Arthurian Studies
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: CSBB

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 01/12/2008

Contents
   Introduction
Peter J.C. Field
1   Corrected Mistakes in the Winchester Manuscript
Takako Kato
2   Textual Harassment: Caxton, de Worde, and Malory's Morte Darthur
D Thomas Hanks Jr
3   `thynges forsayd aledged': Historia and argumentum in Caxton's Preface to the Morte Darthur
Thomas Howard Crofts
4   From `Saracens' to `Infydeles': The Recontextualization of the East in Caxton's Edition of Le Morte Darthur
Meg Roland
5   Malory's `Tale of King Arthur' and the Political Geography of Fifteenth-Century England
Robert L Kelly
6   Symbolic Uses of Space in Malory's Morte Darthur
Dhira B Mahoney
7   Women's Worship: Female Versions of Chivalric Honour
Lisa Robeson
8   `Oute of mesure': Violence and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur
Raluca Radulescu
9   Why Every Knight Needs His Lady: Re-viewing Questions of Genre and `Cohesion' in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Fiona Tolhurst
10   On Misunderstanding Malory's Balyn
Kevin S Whetter

Reviews
Intriguing scholarly discussions, well-informed by earlier criticism but willing to move beyond the implications of previous secondary literature. MEDIEVAL REVIEW
Attests to the sophistication with which scholars are returning to the familiar and fundamental questions of Malory studies. ARTHURIANA



 

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