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Malory and his European contemporaries : adapting late Arthurian romance collections / Miriam Edlich-Muth.
Author
Edlich-Muth, Miriam
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Woodbridge, Suffolk : D.S. Brewer, 2014.
Description
1 online resource (186 pages.)
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Malory, Thomas Sir active 15th century
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Morte d'Arthur
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Arthurian romances
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History and criticism
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Series
Arthurian studies ; 81.
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Arthurian Studies ; 81
Summary note
The late-medieval adaptions and compilations of the Arthurian story are a European phenomenon that has sparked both mystification and controversy. Often dismissed as nostalgic recreations that attempt to halt the literary tide, these ambitious projects saw adaptors from across Western Europe combining a vast array of prose and verse sources from different languages into encyclopaedic narrative chronologies of King Arthur and his court. Ranging from ornate verse adaptations to heavily condensed prose works, the resulting texts reflect a process of translating, cutting and arranging Arthurian material into new literary incarnations, which nonetheless retain recognisable versions of the Arthurian story. This study re-evaluates Malory's Morte Darthur and four broadly contemporary European romance collections, including Jean Gonnot's French BN.fr. 112 manuscript, Ulrich Fuetrer's German Buch der Abenteuer, the Dutch Lancelot Compilation, and the Italian Tavola Ritonda, in the context of this adaptive process. In doing so, it investigates how the adaptors respond to the shared structural and stylistic challenges of incorporating new material into the well-known story of King Arthur and comes to intriguing conclusions about the ways in which the narrative demands of late Arthurian adaptations invited authors to populate the Arthurian court with new and more complex protagonists.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
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9781782042051 (electronic bk.)
1782042059 (electronic bk.)
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