{"product_id":"arthurian-intertextualities-fiona-tolhurst-9780472133628","title":"Arthurian Intertextualities: Misreading and Rereading Malory's Morte Darthur and the Alliterative and Stanzaic Mortes","description":"Readers encountering the Middle English Arthurian tradition are confronted by three texts with confusingly similar titles: an anonymous poem in alliterative verse called \u003ci\u003eMorte Arthure\u003c\/i\u003e, an anonymous poem in eight-line stanzas entitled \u003ci\u003eLe Morte Arthur\u003c\/i\u003e, and Sir Thomas Malory's influential prose Arthuriad, \u003ci\u003eLe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e [\u003ci\u003esic\u003c\/i\u003e]. To add to the confusion, Malory made use of both English poems to augment his French sources in composing his \u003ci\u003eMorte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e, so specialists often speak of two or more of these English \u003ci\u003eMorte\u003c\/i\u003es in the same breath. Yet each \u003ci\u003eMorte \u003c\/i\u003epoem deserves to be studied on its own merits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eArthurian Intertextualitie\u003c\/i\u003es offers new readings of Malory's \u003ci\u003eMorte \u003c\/i\u003eas well as the two English poems that most influenced him. Tolhurst and Whetter situate Malory's Arthur story in the context of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. Combining these contexts with intertextual analysis of scenes and characters from \u003ci\u003eLe Morte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e and both sources, the authors illustrate the full extent of Malory's debt to these two English poems while making a stronger case for Malory's artistry--and the stanzaic-poet's artistry--than previous scholarship has acknowledged. These new readings demand a reassessment of Arthurian women, kingship, and warfare and heroism, including reconsidering the alliterative-poet's attitude to war and to Arthur as conqueror. The authors also offer a spirited defense of Malory's Guenevere, who remains frequently maligned by scholars, and argue for Palomydes's acceptance by his Round Table Fellowship. \u003ci\u003eArthurian Intertextualities\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to readers who are interested in the book that serves as the source for most of the Arthuriana (whether novels, plays, works of art, or films) in today's world: \u003ci\u003eLe Morte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiona Tolhurst,K. S. Whetter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472133624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472133628\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Fiona Tolhurst","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425023738111,"sku":"9780472133628","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3040336a-ce28-4fe8-aea6-7bf1c608038c.jpg?v=1761536477","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/arthurian-intertextualities-fiona-tolhurst-9780472133628","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}