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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Le Morte Darthur"”.
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… fifteenth-century work of Arthurian romance, Le Morte Darthur, underwent significant reevaluation, from being warily considered a trivial, morally problematic text to being hailed as a national epic with a central place in the English canon. This shift in Malory’s status coincided with the …
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Women at War in Early Medieval Poetry and Late Medieval Romance
… and late Medieval romance, there are multiple roles violent women perform. They can be protagonist, antagonist, and supporting character. They prove to be active characters with strength, skill, intelligence, and power. In early Medieval English poetry, Grendel's mother from Beowulf and …
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
<p>Perceval’s sister in Sir Thomas Malory’s <em>Le Morte Darthur</em> and Juliet in William Shakespeare’s <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> act as disruptive guides in spiritual quests by contradicting the expectations placed on them as women characters.</p> <p>Though women are banned from the quest for …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… and fifteenth-century England by juxtaposing elements of the private such as access, intimacy, and withdrawal in historical documents such as court records and marriage customs against canonical literature including, but not only, Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, …
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The Once and Future Traitor: Mordred from the Medieval to the Modern
… with each century of reworking of the Arthurian legend. Arthurian culture is so extensive and varied, however, that this generalization can only be reductive. This study takes a long view of the writing of Mordred from the medieval to the present day. Its focus on a single, narratively marginal …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… King Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory, in his <em>Le Morte Darthur</em>, approaches the narrative of Sir Lancelot with the unwavering attitude that Lancelot must not only sustain the status of Arthur’s most revered knight and truest friend, but also be a true and ideal lover for Guenevere. This …
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
… of Fiore, this study examines to what extent selected literary texts adhered to or deviated from those models. Those texts include Marie de France's Espurgatoire seint Patriz, William Langland's Piers Plowman, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur. This …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… examines the approximately 700 anonymous female characters who appear in Sir Thomas Malory's <italic>Le Morte D'Arthur</italic>, expanding the possibilities for how gender roles might be interpreted based on a wider range of female roles. Primary named female characters such as Guinevere and …