Title: Malory's 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.
Subjects: Arthurian romances, English Romances, History, History and criticism, Kings and rulers in literature, Knights and knighthood in literature, Medieval Rhetoric, Narration (Rhetoric), Technique, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Arthur, king, fiction
People: Thomas Malory Sir (15th cent)
Time periods: To 1500