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Malory (Thomas). Le morte Darthur. --- Malory (Thomas). Le morte Darthur.

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Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by prefacing a comprehensive study of romance with a wide-ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory. In doing so Whetter addresses the questions of why and how romance might usefully be defined and how such an awareness of genre-and the expectations that come with such awareness-impact upon both our understanding of the texts themselves and of how they may have been received by their contemporary medieval audiences. As an integral part the study Whetter offers a detailed examination of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, a text usually considered a straightforward romance but which Whetter argues should be re-classified and reconsidered as a generic mixture best termed tragic-romance. This new classification is important in helping to explain a number of so-called inconsistencies or puzzles in Malory's text and further elucidates Malory's artistry. Whetter offers a powerful meditation upon genre, romance and the Morte which will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates alike.

Malory, Thomas --- Romances, English --- English literature --- Literary form --- Arthurian romances --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Gattungstheorie. --- Romance. --- Artursagan. --- Narratologi --- Arthurian romances. --- Literary form. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Romances, English. --- History and criticism. --- History --- historia --- Middle English. --- Malory, Thomas, --- Malory, Thomas. --- Le morte Darthur. --- Morte d'Arthur (Malory, Thomas, Sir). --- To 1500. --- Mittelenglisch.

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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.

Chevaliers et chevalerie dans la littérature --- Kings and rulers in literature --- Knights and knighthood in literature --- Koningen en heersers in de literatuur --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Ridders en ridderschap in de literatuur --- Rois et souverains dans la littérature --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- Malory, Thomas --- Arthurian romances --- History and criticism --- Romances [English ] --- Malory, Thomas (1408?-1471). Le morte Darthur --- Chevalerie --- Rois et souverains --- Dans la littérature