Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur: Texts and Contexts, Characters and Themes

New articles offer a variety of fresh perspectives on some of the most important areas of Malory criticism.

List of contents

Introduction - Peter J.C. Field
Corrected Mistakes in the Winchester Manuscript - Takako Kato
Textual Harassment: Caxton, de Worde, and Malory's Morte Darthur - D Thomas Hanks Jr
`thynges forsayd aledged': Historia and argumentum in Caxton's Preface to the Morte Darthur - Thomas Howard Crofts
From `Saracens' to `Infydeles': The Recontextualization of the East in Caxton's Edition of Le Morte Darthur - Meg Roland
Malory's `Tale of King Arthur' and the Political Geography of Fifteenth-Century England - Robert L Kelly
Symbolic Uses of Space in Malory's Morte Darthur - Dhira B Mahoney
Women's Worship: Female Versions of Chivalric Honour - Lisa Robeson
`Oute of mesure': Violence and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur - Raluca Radulescu
Why Every Knight Needs His Lady: Re-viewing Questions of Genre and `Cohesion' in Malory's Le Morte Darthur - Fiona Tolhurst
On Misunderstanding Malory's Balyn - Kevin S Whetter

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K.S. Whetter, Raluca L. Radulescu

Product details

• Authors: K. S. Whetter
• Assisted by: Raluca Radulescu (Editor), Raluca L Radulescu (Editor), Raluca L. Radulescu (Editor), K S Whetter (Editor), K. S. Whetter (Editor), Kevin S Whetter (Editor), Kevin S. Whetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2005
• EAN: 9781843840350
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-035-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 236 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 458 g
• Series: Arthurian Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval