Le Morte d’Arthur as Literary Remediation Process to RPG Game

This article presents a proposal for the elaboration of an RPG game with board support based on the remediation of literary narratives and which is thought both for use in the classroom, as a didactic tool, but understood essentially as a playful activity. For that, we first start an observation about the act of playing and what it means in society and in linguistic terms. Subsequently, we are concerned with defining what a game is so that we can effectively present the proposal. To better exemplify it, we present as an example the remediation of Arthurian legends from Le Morte d’Arthur, by Thomas Malory, a project that we have previously tested. The discussion about the behaviour of games then runs through authors such as Johan Huizinga (1980) and Jesper Juul (2005).

The Pre-Raphaelites

Across media including painting, stained glass, architecture, photography, and furniture, the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle explored medievalism’s inheritances and produced new and radical responses to the Middle Ages in bold new visual culture within Britain and its empire. Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Malory’s Morte d’Arthur provided stimulating springboards for emerging ideas regarding the arts in relation to narrative, memory, religion, and romance. Tropes of love, heroism, and beauty were by turns subverted and lauded in diverse Pre-Raphaelite efforts to contend with the Middle Ages and to graft their own values within its spirit. Focusing on what made the Pre-Raphaelite vision innovative, and considering the differing registers of engagement with the Middle Ages through encounter with contemporary and medieval literature across the arts, this chapter considers the unique contribution of artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Julia Margaret Cameron, Ford Madox Brown, John Everett Millais, and Edward Burne-Jones to the spirit of medievalism that gripped the modern Victorian imagination

The Blackness in The Bluest Eye

Novels, of any time, carry certain stories related to reality. The earlier forms of the Novel, Allegory and Romance, contained religious, philosophical facts. These literary genres took the shape of Novels, which continue to carry moral, philosophical and historical truths. George Meredith, a Victorian novelist, defined Novel as the ‘summary of actual life’. According to William Henry Hudson, an English writer, Novel is an effective medium of the portrayal of human thoughts and actions. The English word, Novel derived from the Italian term, Novelle, which means ‘a fresh story’. It was in 1350 that the Italian writer, Giovanny Boccassio, wrote his world famous collection of love stories in prose, named Decameron. Such stories in prose were called ‘novelle’ and a story in verse was known as ‘romance’. It meant a story of the legendary past. Malory’s Morte d’Arthur is an example. Some experts gave various definitions for a ‘Novel’. According to an American novelist, F. Marion Crawford, a Novel is a pocket theatre; a novel contained all accessories of a drama without requiring to be staged before an audience. George Meredith, an English novelist, called it a ‘summary of actual life’ including both ‘the within and the without’. According to W.H Hudson, Novel is an effective medium of the portrayal of human thought and action, ‘combining in itself the creations of poetry, the details of history and generalised experience of philosophy’.

Study Of Arthurian Romances: With Emphasis To Thomas Malory

The expedition on Malory’s Morte d’Arthur emphasis on the masculine activity of chivalry—fighting, questing, ruling— while parallelly reflects the chivalric enterprise as impossible in absence of the feminine in a subjugated position. The medieval romance text of Malory differs from other Arthurian romance literature in the explicit legislation (as opposed to implicit coding) of chivalric values, most notably in the swearing of the Pentecostal Oath, an event unique to Malory’s text. This paper emphasis on the way the institution of the Oath defines and sharpens specific ideals of masculine and feminine gender identities in the Arthurian community, arguing that a compulsion to fulfill these ideals drives the narrative of the Morte d’ Arthur forward to its inevitable ending. Thus, the function of gender in the Morte d’Arthur can only be adequately explored in a book that traces in depth the development of gender constraints from the beginning of the “Tale of King Arthur” to the “Day of Destiny” and its aftermath. One reason the Morte d’Arthur merits a sustained study in terms of gender is due to its status as the most comprehensive and sustained medieval treatment of the Arthurian legend by a single author. This text is about the famous fiction stories about legendary King Arthur, his life and death predominantly compose the spine of Malory’s tale. There are, as well, other passages and tales, in which Arthur is not in the centre of the plot. Stories were translated by Malory from French models, reflects the major branch of author’s all sources. most famous fiction stories about legendary King Arthur, whose life and death predominantly compose the spine of Malory’s tale. There are, as well, other passages and tales, in which Arthur is not in the centre of the plot.

NOSTALGIA, UTOPIA E REGENERAÇÃO:A IDADE MÉDIA DE CAMELOT 3000

Este artigo discute a presença, na história em quadrinhos (HQ) Camelot 3000 (1983-85) de temas oriundos da literatura medieval, particularmente do romance de cavalaria Le Morte d’Arthur, de Thomas Malory, que a HQ em parte continua e em parte adapta. Busca-se demonstrar como as escolhas envolvidas nessa adaptação servem a um discurso duplamente alicerçado: de um lado, forças diabólicas oriundas do medievo se amalgamam aos problemas de um apocalíptico ano 3000, como campos de concentração e uso abusivo da ciência, de modo a constituírem um bloco maléfico claramente discernível; contrapõem-se a este, de outro lado, aspectos heróicos e miraculosos da Idade Média. Discute-se, então, como o discurso daí produzido apresenta, nostalgicamente, o retorno à Idade Média como solução para os males do presente, do qual o futuro distante da HQ não é mais que um espelho.

A construção da Cavalaria de Rei Arthur em Thomas Malory a partir do Juramento do Pentescostes

Nossa inquirição almejou compreender como foi construída a noção de cavalaria presente no texto literário Le Morte D’Arthur, redigido por Sir Thomas Malory por volta de 1495. Como o título sugere, por se tratar de uma narrativa sobre “Rei Arthur”, nosso primeiro passo foi compreender como essa figura foi construída entre a Antiguidade e o Medievo. Cruzamos as investigações sobre “Rei Arthur” com uma breve caracterização do fenômeno da “cavalaria” em seu contexto histórico, algo que fizemos a partir dos trabalhos de George Duby1, Jean Flori2 e Dominique Barthélemy3. Nossa revisão bibliográfica dividiu-se em três momentos distintos: I) referências sobre Malory e sua identidade (em disputa); II) contexto da Inglaterra durante a vida do autor; III) estudos acadêmicos que aproximam a imagética e o simbolismo em torno da figura do Rei Arthur com o Santo Graal e a cavalaria. Tal incursão nos permitiu visualizar como essa cavalaria que aparece na literatura de Malory estava fundada na confluência dos eixos: marcialidade; corte e sacralidade, reagindo a estes de forma crítica. Trata-se de uma cavalaria difusa que nos oferece um enquadramento para compreender como contradições, conflitos e tensões sociais do período reverberavam sobre a literatura. O núcleo disso aparece dentro da literatura de Malory na forma do Juramento do Pentescostes.