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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Thomas Malory"”.
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Behold thy doom is mine: The evolution of Guinevere in the eorks of Chrétien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson
… de Troyes, <em>Le Morte d’Arthur</em> by Sir Thomas Malory, and <em>The Idylls of the King</em> by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In addition, this thesis has drawn upon literary criticism, including that of Maureen Fries and Norris J. Lacy, in proving how Guinevere’s character marks the societal …
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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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E-textuality, e-medieval, e-Malory : the rebirth of Le morte d'Arthur on the web.
… textual culture, 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 …
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Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin and Evolution of Morgan le Fay
… character is Morgan le Fay, who, by the time Sir Thomas Malory writes Le Morte d'Arthur in the fifteenth century, has assumed a range of roles from sister to King Arthur, Queen in her own right, wicked sorceress, and healer. Using both Post-Colonial and Feminist lenses, this study focuses on the …
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The cycle and the spiral: rhetorical strategies in Malory's "Morte Darthur"
… which are typical 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 …
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Literary Perceptions of Leadership
… Period: Beowulf and Le Mort D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory. The Renaissance Period: Shakespeare's Coriolanus and Henry V. The Modern Period: Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and Herman Hesse's The Glass Bead Game. It has been, for the most part, a study of relationships: between leaders …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… Troyes’ romance of the glorious 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 …
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A dama bruxa : representações do imaginário sobre a personagem feminina medieval franco-bretã e seus ecos residuais na literatura nordestina do século XX
… de Monmouth, século XII] e A Morte de Arthur [Thomas Malory, século XV], bem como a análise das principais personagens femininas do romance potiguar As pelejas de Ojuara [Nei Leandro de Castro, século XX], em uma abordagem qualitativa e bibliográfica sócio literária de macroanálise e …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
Over the course of the nineteenth century, Sir Thomas Malory’s 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 …
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The Queen's Feud: Women and Kinship in Malory's <em>Morte Darthur</em>
… blood feud on 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 …
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(N)Onomastics and Malory: Anonymity and Female Characters in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'arthur
… 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 Morgan Le Fay perform more …
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
… Using these traits and exploring the impact of Malory's <em>Le Morte d'Arthur</em> on post-Medieval authors, three developmentally important Renaissance Beast can be identified. Through comparison and critical analysis there is evidence that Errour and the Blatant Beast from Spenser's <em>The …