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Malory's Morte d'Arthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition

Malory's Morte d'Arthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition

Batt, C.

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 0312229984
ISBN13: 9780312229986
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 30 2002
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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