The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's Morte Darthur

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Author: Elizabeth Edwards

ISBN-10: 0859915964

ISBN-13: 9780859915960

Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature

The Morte Darthur is both a representative of the traditions of Arthurian literature, and a complex response to its stock themes and motifs. This book offers a new reading of the principles by which the Morte Darthur is structured, looking at the ways in which Malory deploys the Arthurian tradition and received narratives as both redactor and translator. The sources are considered in particular detail, and the additions and deletions which Malory makes to them: central to the investigation is...

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A study of the structure of the Morte, focusing on Malory's adaptation, as both redactor and translator, of traditional Arthurian material.