Aspects of Malory

Aspects of Malory
Author: Toshiyuki Takamiya
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 249
Release: 1981
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0859910687

This volume of essays is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory, an author who has always been enjoyed by the common reader, but is still sometimes underestimated by the critics. Despite an increasing number of articles on Malory, there is a need for a general survey of recent research, which l> Aspects of Malory /l> provides. The volume opens with a note by the late Professor Vinaver on Malory's prose, and three essays on Malory's Englishness and his English sources, including an essay by P. J. C. Field which argues for an English rather than a French origin for the l>Tale of Gareth/l>. This is followed by two essays on Malory's French sources, by Jill Mann and Mary Hynes-Berry. Terence McCarthy re-exasmines the sequence of the tales, and three further essays look at the scribal and textual tradition of Malory's work, in particular the relationship between the Winchester MS, Caxton's printed version, and the history of the MS. Finally, Richard R. Griffith reconsiders the authorship question, and proposes a long-forgotten Thomas Malory as the most likely candidate. There is a bibliography of recent research compiled by Professor Takamiya. .`Full of sound scholarship'. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Dieter Mehl
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2010-10-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136832246

First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle English Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the fourteenth century, and interprets a number of these romances. The emphasis is literary, on their form and dominant themes rather than source-material or language.

Malory's Library

Malory's Library
Author: Ralph C. Norris
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781843841548

New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself.

Tristan and Isolt

Tristan and Isolt
Author: Gertrude Schoepperle Loomis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1913
Genre: Tristan (Legendary character)
ISBN:

The Ballad and Oral Literature

The Ballad and Oral Literature
Author: Joseph Harris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674060456

Francis James Child, compiler and editor of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman Parry, and Albert B. Lord, discovered new ways of relating ideas about sung narrative to the study of epic poetry and what has come to be called - oral literature. In this volume, 16 scholars from Europe and the United States offer original essays in the spirit of these pioneers. The topics of their studies include well-known Child ballads in their British and American forms; aspects of the oral literatures of France, Ireland, Scandinavia, medieval England, ancient Greece, and modern Egypt; and recent literary ballads and popular songs. Many of the essays evince a concern with the theoretical underpinnings of the study of folklore and literature, orality and literacy; and as a whole the volume re-establishes the European ballad in the wider context of oral literature. Among the contributors are Albert B. Lord, Bengt R. Jonsson, Gregory Nagy, David Buchan, Vesteinn Olason, and Karl Reichl.