Studies in Malory

Edited by James W. Spisak

Book cover: Studies in Malory

Extent: 340 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 1985)

ISBN: 9780918720542

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $19.95

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Compiled to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of publication of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur by William Caxton, this volume contains critical studies of Malory’s work, supplemented by essays that place that work in the larger context of Caxton’s canon.


The publication of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur by William Caxton was a signal event in the history of English literature and printing. Compiled to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of that occasion, this volume contains critical studies of Malory’s work, supplemented by essays that place that work in the larger context of Caxton’s canon. The different approaches and methodologies in the essays reflect the variety of means through which an understanding of the Morte has been sought.

Introduction: Recent Trends in Malory Studies by James W. Spisak Malory's Identification of Camelot as Winchester by Sue Ellen Holbrook Ordinatio and Narrative Links: The Impact of Malory's Tales as a hoole book by Murray J. Evans Malory and the Alliterative Tradition by Terence McCarthy Indiscreet Objects of Desire: Malory's Tristram and the Necessity of Deceit by Maureen Fries The Truest and Holiest Tale: Malory's Transformation of La Queste del Saint Graal by Dhira B. Mahoney Malory's Lancelot and the Quest of the Grail by Stephen C. B. Atkinson Tunc se Coeperunt non Intelligere: The image of Language in Malory's Last Books by John F. Plummer Wounds, Healing, and Knighthood in Malory's Tale of Launcelot and Guenevere by Robert L. Kelly Malory's Very Mater of La Cheualer du Charyot: Characterization and Structure by John Michael Walsh Malory's Lost Source by James W. Spisak Time and Elaine of Astolat by P. J. C. Field, Introduction: Recent Trends in Malory Studies by James W. Spisak
Malory's Identification of Camelot as Winchester by Sue Ellen Holbrook

Ordinatio
and Narrative Links: The Impact of Malory's Tales as a "hoole book" by Murray J. Evans
Malory and the Alliterative Tradition by Terence McCarthy
Indiscreet Objects of Desire: Malory's "Tristram" and the Necessity of Deceit by Maureen Fries
The Truest and Holiest Tale: Malory's Transformation of La Queste del Saint Graal by Dhira B. Mahoney
Malory's Lancelot and the Quest of the Grail by Stephen C. B. Atkinson
Tunc se Coeperunt non Intelligere: The Image of Language in Malory's Last Books by John F. Plummer
Wounds, Healing, and Knighthood in Malory's Tale of Launcelot and Guenevere by Robert L. Kelly
Malory's "Very Mater of La Cheualer du Charyot": Characterization and Structure by John Michael Walsh
Malory's "Lost" Source by James W. Spisak
Time and Elaine of Astolat by P. J. C. Field
Malory's Dispatch Distinctio: The Closing Books of His Work by Judson B. Allen
Malory and Caxton's Chivalric Series, 1481-1485 by J.R. Goodman
"Clerkes, Poetes and Historiographs": The Morte Darthur and Caxton's "Poetics"of Fiction by Elizabeth Kirk
Illustrating Caxton's Malory by Muriel Whitaker

  • Edited by James W. Spisak