Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur: 39 (Arthurian Studies) - Hardcover

Lynch, Andrew

 
9780859915113: Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur: 39 (Arthurian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0859915115 ISBN 13: 9780859915113
Verlag: D.S.Brewer, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations -to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are examined as `needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period.
Andrew Lynch's exploration of the powerof `name' as public reputation in the Mortechallenges the usual reading of Malory's adventures, and he goes on to survey Malory reception and the attempts of earlier critics to moralise the fights in terms he sees as inappropriate. His discussion of the narrative vision and thematics of combat covers the whole text, but places special emphasis on the stories of knight-errantry, and particularly the often neglected Book of Sir Tristram.

ANDREW LYNCH is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia.

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Críticas

A well-written study of an important but neglected aspect of Malory's art. Lynch's concern is Malory's treatment of knightly combat and the complex implications with which he is able to invest his descriptions of fighting... Subtle and sensitive. SPECULUM
Subtle and challenging... Read this book: it will make you think. ALBION P J C FIELD]
No one who has read Andrew Lynch's splendid study will be tempted to ignore `the narrative of combat', for he shows that it is `both a means and an end in Malory'. Well researched and organised, learned, and a useful contribution to Arthurian studies. CHOICE

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This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations -to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are examined as `needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period.
Andrew Lynch's exploration of the powerof `name' as public reputation in the Mortechallenges the usual reading of Malory's adventures, and he goes on to survey Malory reception and the attempts of earlier critics to moralise the fights in terms he sees as inappropriate. His discussion of the narrative vision and thematics of combat covers the whole text, but places special emphasis on the stories of knight-errantry, and particularly the often neglected Book of Sir Tristram.

ANDREW LYNCH is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Western Australia.

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Verlag
D.S.Brewer
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0859915115
ISBN 13 
9780859915113
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
196
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