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Gender and the chivalric community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur / Dorsey Armstrong.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0813031168
  • 9780813031163
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and the chivalric community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur.DDC classification:
  • 823/.2 22
LOC classification:
  • PR2045 .A76 2003eb
Other classification:
  • 18.05
Online resources:
Contents:
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction 1; 1. Gender and the Chivalric Community: The Rise of Arthur's Kingdom 27; 2. Chivalric Performance: Malory's Sir Lancelot 67; 3. Forecast and Recall: Gareth and Tristram 110; 4. Gender, Kinship, and Community: The Quest for the Holy Grail 144; 5. Lancelot, Guenevere, and the Death of Arthur: The Decline and Fall of the Chivalric Community 173; Notes 213; Bibliography 249; Index 267.
Summary: "A lively and thought-provoking study of gender in the Arthurian community. It is at once theoretically sophisticated and highly readable, full of insightful close readings yet conscious of larger patterns of analysis."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon CollegeGender and the Chivalric Community in Malorys Morte dArthur reveals, for the first time in a book-length study, how Thomas Malorys unique approach to gender identity in his revisions of earlier Arthurian works produces a text entirely unlike others in the canon of medieval romance.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-266) and index.

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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction 1; 1. Gender and the Chivalric Community: The Rise of Arthur's Kingdom 27; 2. Chivalric Performance: Malory's Sir Lancelot 67; 3. Forecast and Recall: Gareth and Tristram 110; 4. Gender, Kinship, and Community: The Quest for the Holy Grail 144; 5. Lancelot, Guenevere, and the Death of Arthur: The Decline and Fall of the Chivalric Community 173; Notes 213; Bibliography 249; Index 267.

"A lively and thought-provoking study of gender in the Arthurian community. It is at once theoretically sophisticated and highly readable, full of insightful close readings yet conscious of larger patterns of analysis."--Laurie Finke, Kenyon CollegeGender and the Chivalric Community in Malorys Morte dArthur reveals, for the first time in a book-length study, how Thomas Malorys unique approach to gender identity in his revisions of earlier Arthurian works produces a text entirely unlike others in the canon of medieval romance.

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