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Authors: Thomas Malory, Elizabeth Bryan
ISBN-13: 9780679600992, ISBN-10: 067960099X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: July 1994
Edition: Modern Library Edition

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Author Biography: Thomas Malory

Elizabeth J. Bryan is associate professor of English at Brown University. She is the author of Collaborative Meaning in Medieval Scribal Culture: The Otho LaZamon.


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Book Synopsis

A primary and secondary source to the 15th-century prose saga for students of English literature. The text includes footnotes explaining terms and references, and marginal references to manuscript pages. A glossary, related contemporary documents, and recent critical essays support the text. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chronologies
Arthur Before Malory
The Wars of the Roses
Malory: Life Events
Receptions of Le Morte Darthur to 1934
Reading Malory's English
Editorial Procedure/Reading the Edition
Abbreviations
Le Morte Darthur or The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table1
Sources and Backgrounds699
Responses to the Times759
Criticism795
Malory and Rape797
Prologue and Epilogue to the 1485 Edition814
Counter-Romance: Civil Strife and Father-Killing in the Prose Romances819
The Rhetoric of Dialogue830
Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory835
Shame and Guilt849
On Malory's Style856
Manuscripts, Readers, and Patrons in Fifteenth-Century England: Sir Thomas Malory and Arthurian Romance865
Divisions882
Mellyagant's Primal Scene894
Glossary907
Selected Guide to Proper Names939
Selected Bibliography945

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