Understanding Genre and Medieval Romance
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Final Tale
Gawain
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Generic Intermingling
Generic Mixture
genre classification
Grail Quest
Green Knight
Le Chevalier De La Charrete
Le Morte Darthur
Malory criticism
Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Malory's Morte Darthur
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Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
Malory’s Morte Darthur
medieval audience reception
Medieval English Popular Romance
medieval literary theory
Medieval Romance
medieval romance genre theory
Middle English Romance
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Morte Darthur
narrative structure analysis
Romance Elements
Sir Gawain
Sir Launcelot
Sir Orfeo
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Straightforward Romance
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tragic-romance studies
Vulgate Queste Del Saint Graal
Wild Bunch
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754661429
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Unique in combining a comprehensive and comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a significant contribution to ongoing critical debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. K.S. Whetter offers an original approach to these issues by prefacing a comprehensive study of romance with a wide-ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory. In doing so Whetter addresses the questions of why and how romance might usefully be defined and how such an awareness of genre-and the expectations that come with such awareness-impact upon both our understanding of the texts themselves and of how they may have been received by their contemporary medieval audiences. As an integral part the study Whetter offers a detailed examination of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, a text usually considered a straightforward romance but which Whetter argues should be re-classified and reconsidered as a generic mixture best termed tragic-romance. This new classification is important in helping to explain a number of so-called inconsistencies or puzzles in Malory's text and further elucidates Malory's artistry. Whetter offers a powerful meditation upon genre, romance and the Morte which will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and undergraduates alike.
K.S. Whetter is currently Associate Professor of English at Acadia University, Canada. He is co-editor (with Raluca Radulescu) of Re-Viewing Le Morte Darthur (2005).
