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Sex, blood, and gender have diverse associations in the Malorian
tradition, yet their inter-relatedness and intersections are
comparatively understudied. This present collection of essays is
intended to go some way toward remedying the need for a sustained
examination of blood ties, kinship, gender, and sexuality, and the
prominence of these themes in Malory's work. They concentrate in
particular upon the analyses of sexuality and sexual activity (and
its lack or erasure) and the significance of blood (and
blood-shedding) in the Morte Darthur, as well as the
interconnections with gender (biological sex) and familial
("blood") relations in the Morte, its sources and its later
reworkings. The result is a wide-ranging investigation into related
but distinctive thematic preoccupations, including the national and
kinship affiliations of Malorian knights, sibling relationships,
deviant sexuality, and blood-spilling in martial and intimate
contexts. Contributors: Christina Francis, Megan G. Leitch, Helen
Phillips, Carolyne Larrington, Lydia A. Fletcher, Kate McClune,
Sally Mapstone, Caitlyn Schwartz, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Anna
Caughey, Catherine LaFarge
Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the
protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently
celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains
that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous,
antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be,
and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their
defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and
the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic
complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the
genre that has been frequently discussed up until now. Focusing on
fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval
narrative, this book illustrates the range of different ways in
which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often
depend on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism. Dr
Neil Cartlidge is Lecturer in English at the University of Durham.
Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg
Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune,
Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin,
James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath
Investigations into the heroic - or not - behaviour of the
protagonists of medieval romance. Medieval romances so insistently
celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains
that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous,
antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be,
and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their
defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and
the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic
complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the
genre that has been frequently discussed up until now. Focusing on
fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval
narrative, this book illustrates the range of different ways in
which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often
depend on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism.
NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor of English Studies at the University of
Durham Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg
Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune,
Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin,
James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath
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