Malory's Morte Darthur
Subtitle: remaking Arthurian tradition
By: Catherine Batt.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The new Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave (firm))
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent; Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent. -- Technique; Arthurian romances -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500; Romances, English -- History and criticism; Knights and knighthood in literature; Kings and rulers in literature; Rhetoric, Medieval
Other titles: Morte Darthur
Description: "This study explores how Malory's Morte Darthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions - 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 Lancelot, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Series Editor's Foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Preface; title: 1. Structures and Traditions; title: 2. Desire, History,Violence: Merlin's Narratives; title: 3. Narrative Form and Heroic Expectation:; title: The Tale ofArthur and Lucius,; title: The Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake,; title: and The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney; title: 4. Setting Limits: Textual Parameters and; title: Sites of Resistance in The Book of Sir Tristram; title: 5. Spiritual Community, Gender, and Fatherhood; title: in The Tale of the Sankgreal; title: 6. Displaced Persons:; title: Readers, Love, Death, and Commemoration; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index.