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The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's Morte Darthur (Hardcover)
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The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's Morte Darthur (Hardcover)
Series: Arthurian Studies
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A study of the structure of the Morte, focusing on Malory's
adaptation, as both redactor and translator, of traditional
Arthurian material. The Morte Darthur is both a representative of
the traditions of Arthurian literature, and a complex response to
its stock themes and motifs. This book offers a new reading of the
principles by which the Morte Darthur is structured, looking at the
ways in which Malory deploys the Arthurian tradition and received
narratives as both redactor and translator. The sources are
considered in particular detail, and the additions and deletions
which Malory makes to them: central to the investigation is the
ways in which the fifteenth-century work on the one hand conserves
thirteenth-century narratives such as Le Mort le Roi Artu, yet on
the other reconstitutes it as something new, an approach which
differs from the current critical trend of considering the Morte
mainly in relation to its contemporary milieu. In so doing, the
author develops a theory of "symbolic structure" to account for the
principles of generation and combination of narrative elements in
Malory, looking at the ways in which entire narratives can be put
into motion by the power of a symbol such as Balin's sword, or the
grail itself. Dr ELIZABETH EDWARDS teaches at the University of
King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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