Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur

by Andrew Lynch

An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's Morte Darthur.

This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations -to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture - are examined as needs of meaning with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859915115
• ISBN13: 9780859915113
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"