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A New Companion to Malory (Paperback)
Megan G. Leitch, Cory James Rushton; Contributions by Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Thomas H. Crofts, …
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R853
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A comprehensive survey of Malory's Morte Darthur, one of the most
important texts of the Middle Ages. Malory's Morte Darthur is now a
canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a
transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship,
as well as significant advances in understanding its
milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume
adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering
scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and
the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of,
and fresh perspectives on, the key questions about and contexts
connected with the Morte. MEGAN G. LEITCH is Senior Lecturer in
English Literature at Cardiff University; CORY JAMES RUSHTON is
Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis
Xavier University, Canada. Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas
Crofts, Sian Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman,
Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca
Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi,
Kevin Whetter.
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Arthurian Literature XXXII (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by David Eugene Clark, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Larissa Tracy, …
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R2,184
Discovery Miles 21 840
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The essays collected here put
considerable emphasis on Arthurian narratives in material culture
and historical context, as well as on purely literary analysis, a
reminder of the enormous range of interests in Arthurian
narrativesin the Middle Ages, in a number of different contexts.
The volume opens with a study of torture in texts from Chretien to
Malory, and on English law and attitudes in particular. Several
contributors discuss the undeservedly neglected Stanzaic Morte
Arthur, a key source for Malory. His Morte Darthur is the focus of
several essays, respectively on the sources of the "Tale of Sir
Gareth"; battle scenes and the importance of chivalric kingship;
Cicero's De amicitia and the mixed blessings and dangers of
fellowship; and comparison of concluding formulae in the Winchester
Manuscript and Caxton's edition. Seven tantalizing fragments of
needlework, all depictingTristan, are discussed in terms of the
heraldic devices they include. The volume ends with an update on
newly discovered manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's seminal
Historia regum Britanniae, the twelfth-century best-seller which
launched Arthur's literary career. Elizabeth Archibald is Professor
of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St
Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at
Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contibutors: David Eugene
Clark, Marco Nievergelt, Ralph Norris, Sarah Randles, Lisa Robeson,
Richard Severe, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Larissa Tracy
New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was
created and about Malory himself. The first book-length study of
the sources of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur since 1921 and the
first comprehensive study since that of Vinaver's three-volume
edition, Malory's Library collects the results of overone hundred
years of scholarship, providing new discussions of the major
sources of the eight tales recognised in the standard edition. It
also, for the first time, explores possible minor sources of the
Morte Darthur, evaluating the case for them to see what conclusions
may be drawn of Malory's life, work, and mental furnishings. In so
doing, it clarifies the process by which Malory created his work.
It shows that Malory carried an eclectic body of literature in his
mind and worked at least partly from memory; and it illuminates his
interest in characters of his own social class, the breadth of his
enthusiasm for Arthurian literature, and the depth of his
commitment to provide his countrymen with "the hoole book of kyng
Arthur and of his noble knyghtes of the Round Table". RALPH NORRIS
teaches in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University.
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The Pigeon Factory (Paperback)
John Richards; Photographs by Ralph Norris
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R241
R200
Discovery Miles 2 000
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By the author of Working Stiff, this collection of eleven short
stories rips into Rustbowl Detroit with John Richards' usual
switchblade precision, humor and an hallucinatory prose. The
stories in The Pigeon Factory are accompanied by fourteen
photographs by Ralph Norris which fit the stories and place like a
glove.
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A New Companion to Malory (Hardcover)
Megan G. Leitch, Cory James Rushton; Contributions by Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Thomas H. Crofts, …
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R2,337
Discovery Miles 23 370
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A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the
Middle Ages. Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and
widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and
expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as
significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual,
literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates
the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and
students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays
it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives
on, the key questions about and contexts connected with the Morte.
MEGAN G. LEITCH is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff
University; CORY JAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the
Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas Crofts, Sian Echard, Rob
Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch,
Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg
Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi, Kevin Whetter.
Native art on the Northwest Coast is very much alive and increasing
in both artistry and volume. Over 400 color photographs of old and
recent artwork have been selected with the collector in mind.
Totems, drums, rattles boxes and canoes join the many masks
displayed here. Many pieces are shown from several sides and the
back to give a complete picture of the work. Master carvers as well
as younger artists are featured. The text guides readers to better
understand the complex society, its artwork, and current values.
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