ISBN:
9781137111838
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXIII, 264 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Series Statement:
The New Middle Ages
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Literature
;
Great Britain History
;
Literature, Medieval
;
Poetry
;
Fiction
;
World politics
;
Sociology
Abstract:
This study innovatively explores how Malory's Morte D'Arthur responds to available literary vernacular Arthurian traditions which the French defined as theoretical in impulse, the English as performative and experimental. Negotiating these influences, Malory transforms constructions of masculine heroism, especially in the presentation of Launcelot, and exposes the tensions and disillusions of the Arthurian project. The Morte poignantly conveys a desire for integrity in narrative and subject-matter, but at the same time tests literary conceptualizations of history, nationalism, gender and selfhood, and considers the failures of social and legal institutionalizations of violence, in a critique of literary form and of social order
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-137-11183-8
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