Title: Reading romance
First published: 2000
Description: "Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur is one of the most enduring achievements of English literary history. This study offers a new interpretation of this seminal version of the Arthurian Romances beginning with recognition of its status as one of the first literary works to be mass produced by the typographic age.

Acknowledging that literacy revolutionizes the human-thought world, and maintaining the validity of exploring the psychological content of traditional literature, a specific psychic preoccupation is identified in Malory's work: namely, man's struggle to accommodate the conflicting demands of his divided self."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Arthurian romances, Authors and readers, English Psychological fiction, English Romances, History, History and criticism, Kings and rulers in literature, Knights and knighthood in literature, Knowledge, Literacy, Psychological fiction, English, Psychology, Psychology in literature, Reader-response criticism, Romances, English, Malory, thomas, sir, active 15th century, Psychological fiction, history and criticism, English fiction, history and criticism, Literacy, history, Knowledge and learning
Places: England
People: Thomas Malory Sir (15th cent)
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PR2047 .S96 2000