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Malory's Book of Arms - The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur (Hardcover)
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Malory's Book of Arms - The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur (Hardcover)
Series: Arthurian Studies
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An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's
Morte Darthur. This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur
centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed
combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated
descriptive preoccupations -to do with name, vision, blood, emotion
and gesture - are examined as "needs of meaning" with relevance for
the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical,
sexual and medical views of Malory's period. Andrew Lynch's
exploration of the power of "name" as public reputation in the
Morte challenges the usual reading of Malory's adventures, and he
goes on to survey Malory reception and the attempts of earlier
critics to moralise the fights in terms he sees as inappropriate.
His discussion of the narrative vision and thematics of combat
covers the whole text, but places special emphasis on the stories
of knight-errantry, and particularly the often neglected Book of
Sir Tristram. ANDREW LYNCH is Senior Lecturer in English at the
University of Western Australia.
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