Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This third edition of Vinaver's superbly annotated text of the Works provides a factually corrected version of the second edition, including reverified text and apparatus consisting of some 2,850 changes, and a completely revised index and glossary. In addition to the new changes, the volume offers the standard format of the previous two editions, including a definitive biography and literary interpretation of Malory, an essay describing the texts on which the edition was established, the Caxton printing, a lucid and highly readable introduction, full critical apparatus, and numerous relevant quotes from unpublished sources.
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory
Author: Sir Thomas Malory
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This third edition of Vinaver's superbly annotated text of the Works provides a factually corrected version of the second edition, including reverified text and apparatus consisting of some 2,850 changes, and a completely revised index and glossary. In addition to the new changes, the volume offers the standard format of the previous two editions, including a definitive biography and literary interpretation of Malory, an essay describing the texts on which the edition was established, the Caxton printing, a lucid and highly readable introduction, full critical apparatus, and numerous relevant quotes from unpublished sources.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This third edition of Vinaver's superbly annotated text of the Works provides a factually corrected version of the second edition, including reverified text and apparatus consisting of some 2,850 changes, and a completely revised index and glossary. In addition to the new changes, the volume offers the standard format of the previous two editions, including a definitive biography and literary interpretation of Malory, an essay describing the texts on which the edition was established, the Caxton printing, a lucid and highly readable introduction, full critical apparatus, and numerous relevant quotes from unpublished sources.
A New Companion to Malory
Author: Megan G. Leitch
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843845237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.
Malory's Book of Arms
Author: Andrew Lynch
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859915115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest, armed combat. The description of knightly combat, with its complex thematic affinities, is seen as Malory's chief expressive medium. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations - to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are treated as 'needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period. The critical discussion thus rests more on these elements of discourse rather than on the broader concepts such as 'chivalry' or 'love' normally applied to Malory.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859915115
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest, armed combat. The description of knightly combat, with its complex thematic affinities, is seen as Malory's chief expressive medium. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations - to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are treated as 'needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period. The critical discussion thus rests more on these elements of discourse rather than on the broader concepts such as 'chivalry' or 'love' normally applied to Malory.
Malory
Author: P. J. C. Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Complete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Complete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur.
Malory's Anatomy of Chivalry
Author: Paul Rovang
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is the first systematic study in decades of Malory’s development of his characters in the Morte Darthur. Focusing on sixteen key figures in the most important medieval English treatment of the Arthurian saga, it examines Malory’s thematic characterization of individual rulers, knights, and ladies in keeping with the twin trajectories of his history of the Round Table and fifteenth-century English history. Looking at how Malory develops his characters as exemplars of kingship, knighthood, and womanhood, the book traces the medieval author’s exploration of the values constituting chivalry as embodied in individual characters, a process that enabled him to formulate a vision of those values for his own troubled period of the Wars of the Roses. This book further explores the contribution Malory’s art of characterization makes to the literary and aesthetic power of the Morte Darthur. Each chapter’s focus on individual characters makes the book not only an integrated thematic overview, but also a useful reference for focused study of particular Arthurian figures. As such, the book is designed to meet the interests and needs of both professional scholars and students of Arthurian and medieval literature.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611477794
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book is the first systematic study in decades of Malory’s development of his characters in the Morte Darthur. Focusing on sixteen key figures in the most important medieval English treatment of the Arthurian saga, it examines Malory’s thematic characterization of individual rulers, knights, and ladies in keeping with the twin trajectories of his history of the Round Table and fifteenth-century English history. Looking at how Malory develops his characters as exemplars of kingship, knighthood, and womanhood, the book traces the medieval author’s exploration of the values constituting chivalry as embodied in individual characters, a process that enabled him to formulate a vision of those values for his own troubled period of the Wars of the Roses. This book further explores the contribution Malory’s art of characterization makes to the literary and aesthetic power of the Morte Darthur. Each chapter’s focus on individual characters makes the book not only an integrated thematic overview, but also a useful reference for focused study of particular Arthurian figures. As such, the book is designed to meet the interests and needs of both professional scholars and students of Arthurian and medieval literature.
The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur
Author: Dorrel Thomas Hanks
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Malory's world explored, from the battle of Towton to the "grete bokes" of chivalric material composd for aristocratic families.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859915946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Malory's world explored, from the battle of Towton to the "grete bokes" of chivalric material composd for aristocratic families.
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory
Author: P. J. C. Field
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This volume constitutes a search for the identity of Malory, author of the Morte Darthur. Field considers all arguments and gives an account of the life of the man identified, setting him in his historical context.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859915663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This volume constitutes a search for the identity of Malory, author of the Morte Darthur. Field considers all arguments and gives an account of the life of the man identified, setting him in his historical context.
Malory's Library
Author: Ralph C. Norris
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843841548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843841548
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself.
Arthurian Literature and Society
Author: S. Knight
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349173029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349173029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Political Allegory in Late Medieval England
Author: Ann W. Astell
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801474655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era—among them, William Langland, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Gawain-poet—offered in their works of fiction timely commentary on current events and public issues. Poems previously regarded as only vaguely political in their subject matter are seen by Astell to be highly detailed and specific in their veiled historical references, implied audiences, and admonitions. Astell begins by describing the Augustinian and Boethian rhetorical principles involved in the invention of allegory. She then compares literary and historical treatments of key events in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, finding an astonishing match of allusions and code words, especially those deriving from puns, titles, heraldic devices, and personal cognizances, as well as repeated proverbs, prophecies, and exempla. Among the works she discusses are John Ball's Letters and parts of Piers Plowman, which she presents as two examples of allegorical literature associated with the Peasants' Revolution of 1381; Gower's allegorical representation of the Merciless Parliament of 1388 in Confessio Amantis; and Chaucer's brilliant literary handling of key events in the reign of Richard II. In addition Astell argues for a precise dating of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight between 1397 and 1399 and decodes the work as a political allegory.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801474655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era—among them, William Langland, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Gawain-poet—offered in their works of fiction timely commentary on current events and public issues. Poems previously regarded as only vaguely political in their subject matter are seen by Astell to be highly detailed and specific in their veiled historical references, implied audiences, and admonitions. Astell begins by describing the Augustinian and Boethian rhetorical principles involved in the invention of allegory. She then compares literary and historical treatments of key events in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, finding an astonishing match of allusions and code words, especially those deriving from puns, titles, heraldic devices, and personal cognizances, as well as repeated proverbs, prophecies, and exempla. Among the works she discusses are John Ball's Letters and parts of Piers Plowman, which she presents as two examples of allegorical literature associated with the Peasants' Revolution of 1381; Gower's allegorical representation of the Merciless Parliament of 1388 in Confessio Amantis; and Chaucer's brilliant literary handling of key events in the reign of Richard II. In addition Astell argues for a precise dating of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight between 1397 and 1399 and decodes the work as a political allegory.