Once Again King Arthur and the Ambassadors: A Textual Crux in Malory’s Morte Darthur

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Norris
Keyword(s):  
King Arthur ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Interesting Part

Abstract:From the perspective of textual studies, ‘King Arthur and Emperor Lucius’ is the most interesting part of Sir Thomas Malory’s

‘Ile be the bane of Cornwall Kinge’: The ballad of King Arthur and King Cornwall and the relentless pursuit of vengeance in the pre-modern Arthurian tradition

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Geert van Iersel
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Internal Conflict ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
History Of ◽  
Le Morte Darthur

Abstract This paper concerns the narrative logic behind the disregard for the life of King Arthur’s opponent in the seventeenth-century ballad of King Arthur and King Cornwall. It approaches its subject through comparisons with the last book of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, Le pèlerinage de Charlemagne, Le petit Poucet, Jack and the Beanstalk and the History of Mother Twaddle, and the Marvellous Atchievements [sic] of her Son Jack. It argues that by associating Arthur’s rival, King Cornwall, with magic objects and a fire-breathing creature called Burlow Beanie, as well as placing Cornwall’s domain away from Arthur’s, the ballad marks Cornwall as ‘other’ and, in so doing, implies that ordinary moral considerations do not apply when it comes to actions such as the killing of Cornwall. The article additionally argues that a major difference between the ballad and the last book of Le Morte Darthur, where much of the action is driven by factors that also feature prominently in King Arthur and King Cornwall, lies in the fact that in Le Morte Darthur none of the major actors are marked as ‘other’ – highlighting the nature of the tragedy that unfolds as one of destructive internal conflict.

scholarly journals Maidens, Magic, and Manipulation: The Female Presence in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur

2014 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Karen Moloney
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Round Table ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
Primary Focus

The legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table are preeminent in medieval lore, as literary history celebrates these valiant knights on their illustrious quests; these crusades, however, were very often affected, or even entirely motived, by love, lust, or a damsel in distress. What of those women whom these knights loved and lost, or feared and fought? A distinctly male presence remains the primary focus of medieval literature; my work aims to explore how the dynamic of these medieval texts is influenced and motivated by the consequences of female endeavours, in terms of an autonomous feminine presence in the narrative world, and the authority with which this is presented. My focus lies primarily with an exploration of this female form in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur, a fifteenth-century text which presents the Arthurian world governed by the king and his renowned company of knights, based on ...

‘He was but a Yong Man’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate McClune
Keyword(s):  
King Arthur ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Selection Of

This chapter analyses the presentation of the figure of King Arthur in a selection of Scots chronicles and romances. It considers Scots ambivalence towards the figure of Arthur, and examines this against the perennial Scots concern with the problem of youthful kingship. In doing so, it highlights a hitherto neglected aspect in the equivocal Scottish treatments of Arthur: the issue of age. It argues that the varied nature of Arthur’s characterization is related to the extreme youth of the true heir (in Scots tradition at least), Modred, and a corresponding anxiety about minority rule which reflects contemporary Scots concerns. It concludes with an analysis of Malory’s Morte Darthur and points to hitherto unnoticed parallels in the English tradition.

Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte DArthur: Selections, ed. Maureen Okun. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2015, 374 pp., 7 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 482-482
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
British Literature ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Sir Thomas Malory ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Morte Darthur ◽  
Reasonable Alternative ◽  
Complete Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Thomas Malory

As important as Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Artur certainly proves to be for the entire history of medieval English literature, its massive volume makes it difficult for many of our students today to read the complete work. The present selection offers a more or less reasonable alternative and deserves to be considered for a variety of English literature courses. Maureen Okun offers the following sections: from From the Marriage of King Uther unto King Arthur; from A Noble Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake; from Sir Tristram de Lyones; from The Noble Tale of the Sankgreal; from The Tale of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere; and from The Death of Arthur.

SISI HUMOR DAN CITA RASA KHONG GUAN PADA PUISI-PUISI JOKO PINURBO

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Mukodas . ◽  
Wildan F. Mubarock
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

HUMOR AND TASTE OF KHONG GUAN IN JOKO PINURBO’S POEMJoko Pinurbo is one of productive writer. The most interesting part of all works from Jokpin is the humour or jokes he inserted. What makes it interesting there are several poems that he wrote which published in Kompas newspaper on 31st Agustus 2019. There are twelve poems which consists the word Khong Guan in every title: Perjamuan Khong Guan, Hujan Khong Guan, Tidur Khong Guan, Lebaran Khong Guan, Minuman Khong Guan, Sabda Khong Guan, Agama Khong Guan, Keluarga Khong Guan, Mudik Khong Guan, Doa Khong Guan, Bingkisan Khong Guan, dan Hati Khong Guan. Those twelve poems are the subject to this research. The aim of this research is to define how humor was created.  Recent humors are mostly uneducated humor such as insult joke, bullying, and disrespectful. Joko Pinurbo gives alternative in doing humor, through poem. Humor found in the poem is dominated by tragedy humor. Descriptive qualitative method is used in this research. This research found that there are five poems which can be classified as tragedy

When Beruriah Met Aisha

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
Shari Golberg
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Legal Reform ◽  
Textual Studies ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Legal Texts

My dissertation attends to the complex and very fraught relationship that women have with their sacred scriptures by examining overlapping conceptions of religious law and legal reform among Jewish and Muslim women who actively study and interpret traditional texts. My project hopes to address what it is that animates Muslim and Jewish women’s interests in textual studies and how close engagement with religious legal texts might contribute to their development as particularized religious subjects.

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