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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Morte darthur"”.
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The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's <em>Morte Darthur</em>
… the knights of the Round Table in Malory's <em>Morte Darthur</em> is clear and has been well studied. Likewise documented is the shift to an institutionalized political system focused on individual chivalry after the founding of the Round Table. This study focuses on the feuds and political …
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The cycle and the spiral: rhetorical strategies in Malory's "Morte Darthur"
… of medieval romance inform Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. Despite the fact that his prose narrative includes native elements of realism and directness, Malory utilizes the cycle and the spiral as methods of arrangement. These patterns reflect a cohesive world view which dominated the …
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Chivalric Lieux De Memoire: Nostalgia, Communal Memory, And The Burden Of Historical Consciousness In Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur
… attempts to position Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur as a response to the anxieties of a turbulent social period. To start, I establish the political and social climate of fifteenth-century England, drawing on the work of historians to demonstrate the disequilibrium of communal …
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‘One of the nobelyst knyghtes of the worlde, and most perfitist man’: the role of Bors in Malory’s Morte Darthur.
… of the figure of Bors in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur. It is concerned chiefly with the question of whether Bors is motivated mainly by his faith in God or by his loyalty to Lancelot, Malory’s pre-eminent knight and the focus of his text. Bors is a minor character in the Morte until the …
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Arthurian mythology in the twentieth century : T.H. White and John Steinbeck's interpretations of Malory's Morte d'Arthur
… and to investigate their reliance on Malory's Morte Darthur. A close critical reading of both texts is provided. The thesis begins by setting the novels in the context of the body of twentieth-century literature inspired by the Arthurian legend, and notes that both aspire to provide a fresh …
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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 rise …
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Malory's Lancelot: the Conflicts of Chivalry Based on a Source Study of Malory's Morte D'Arthur
The person of Sir Thomas Malory, author of Morte Darthur, has drawn much scholarly attention since the publication of William Caxton's first edition in 1485. Because Caxton was not specific about the author, scholars have speculated on Malory's true identity. Since the nineteenth century most …
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Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature
… detailed look at the uses of madness in Malory’s Morte Darthur, Gower’s Confessio Amantis, and in two autobiographical accounts of madness, the Book of Margery Kempe and Hoccleve’s Series. The experience of madness can both subvert and reinforce gender roles. Madness is commonly seen as an …
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E-textuality, e-medieval, e-Malory : the rebirth of Le morte d'Arthur on the web.
… especially the culture of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Finally, though, electronic resources provide the means for reconstructing these contexts. This study focuses on showing how the application of the postmodern theories of Derrida, Bakhtin, and Foucault allow modern scholars to …
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Women at War in Early Medieval Poetry and Late Medieval Romance
… and proud. Lynet from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur may not be as violent as the other women in this study, but she is equally powerful and intelligent. These women show different ways in which violent women characters had agency and active roles in the texts they inhabit.
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Perceval's sister and Juliet Capulet as disruptive guides in spiritual quests
… 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 the …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. My study explains the dynamics between privacy and place in urban property, romance beds, marriage, and widowhood by utilizing a theoretical framework developed by modern geographers; expanding on their ideas, I consider how the …
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The poetics of the medium : aesthetic forms and technologies of the word in the English Middle Ages
… English Corpus Christi plays, and Malory's Morte Darthur. This study reveals the way the distinctive poetics of each of these works is formed in response to its own communication technology, appropriating from it patterns of audience relation, temporality, materiality, and social function. …
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The Once and Future Traitor: Mordred from the Medieval to the Modern
… consistent direction. Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur is a flat villain with a singular role, whilst the anonymous Middle English Alliterative Morte Arthure is an intricate blend of sympathy and critique that presents Mordred and Arthur as equals in the text. Although the works selected …
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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 deep …
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
… The Pardoner's Tale, and Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur. This dissertation reveals that several texts subscribed to an expectation of cosmic and personal annihilation, in the Augustinian representation, or of global transformation in the Joachist version. Nearly all of the texts agree in …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… 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 Morgan Le Fay perform more stereotypical functions in the …