New Companion to Malory: 87 (Arthurian Studies, 87)
Synopsis "New Companion to Malory: 87 (Arthurian Studies, 87) "
Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives on, the key questions about and contexts connected with the Morte.MEGAN G. LEITCH is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; CORY JAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas Crofts, Siân Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi, Kevin Whetter.Table of ContentsIntroductionMalory in Historical Context - Catherine NallMalory and His Sources - Ralph NorrisWriting the Morte Darthur: Author, Manuscript, and Modern Editions - Kevin S Whetter and Thomas Howard CroftsMalory in Literary Context - Megan G. LeitchMalory in Print - Sian EchardMalory and Form - Cory RushtonMalory and Character - Dorsey ArmstrongMalory and Gender - Amy S. KaufmanMalory and Emotion - Andrew LynchSecular Malory - Lisa RobesonSpiritual Malory - Raluca RadulescuMalory and the Wider World - Meg RolandMalory in Wartime Britain - Robert GossedgeMalory in Japan - Masako TakagiMalory in America - Daniel Glynn Helbert
