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  title info:
    title: Arthurian intertextualities
    sub title: misreading and rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes
  name:
    name part: Tolhurst, Fiona
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Whetter, K. S. (Kevin Sean)
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: pages cm
  abstract: Readers encountering the Middle English Arthurian tradition are confronted by three texts with confusingly similar titles: an anonymous poem in alliterative verse called Morte Arthure, an anonymous poem in eight-line stanzas entitled Le Morte Arthur, and Sir Thomas Malory's influential prose Arthuriad, Le Morte Darthur [sic]. To add to the confusion, Malory made use of both English poems to augment his French sources in composing his Morte Darthur, so specialists often speak of two or more of these English Mortes in the same breath. Yet each Morte poem deserves to be studied on its own merits. Arthurian Intertextualities offers new readings of Malory's Morte as well as the two English poems that most influenced him. Tolhurst and Whetter situate Malory's Arthur story in the context of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. Combining these contexts with intertextual analysis of scenes and characters from Le Morte Darthur and both sources, the authors illustrate the full extent of Malory's debt to these two English poems while making a stronger case for Malory's artistry--and the stanzaic-poet's artistry--than previous scholarship has acknowledged. These new readings demand a reassessment of Arthurian women, kingship, and warfare and heroism, including reconsidering the alliterative-poet's attitude to war and to Arthur as conqueror. The authors also offer a spirited defense of Malory's Guenevere, who remains frequently maligned by scholars, and argue for Palomydes's acceptance by his Round Table Fellowship. Arthurian Intertextualities will appeal to readers who are interested in the book that serves as the source for most of the Arthuriana (whether novels, plays, works of art, or films) in today's world: Le Morte Darthur.
  table of contents: Introduction: Malory's 'Morte Darthur', its English sources, and their critics -- 1. Sir Palomydes, Knight of the Round Table: Rereading Malory's Pryamus, Palomydes, and Trystram as Arthurian insiders -- 2. Launcelot and his Elaynes: Malory's romance heroines and their roots in the stanzaic 'Morte Arthur' -- 3. Misreading and rereading Arthur: Celebrating Arthur as hero and conqueror-king in the alliterative 'Morte Arthure' and Malory's 'Morte Darthur' -- 4. Misreading and rereading Malory's Gwenyvere: The Queen and her counterparts in the three English 'Mortes' -- Epilogue: Intertextual Arthurian memories.
  note: From Tolhurst and K.S. Whetter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-299) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir
      name part: Malory, Thomas
      name part: active 15th century
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Sir
      name part: Malory, Thomas
      name part: active 15th century
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Arthurian romances
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature and society
    geographic: England
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Cycle d'Arthur
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Littérature et société
    geographic: Angleterre
    temporal: Jusqu'à 1500
  classification: PR2045 .T65 2025
  classification: 823/.2
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    title info:
      title: Arthurian intertextualities
    name:
      name part: Tolhurst, Fiona.
    origin info:
      publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2025011335
  identifier: 9780472133628
  identifier: 0472133624
  identifier: 9780472905263
  identifier: 2025011334
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: MiU/DLC
    record creation date: 250321
    record change date: 20251018172056.9
    record identifier: in00005666234
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng