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Women of Words in Le Morte Darthur

The Autonomy of Speech in Malory's Female Characters

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Arthurian and Courtly Cultures

Paru le : 2016-10-05



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Offering a new reading of Malory’s famed text, Le Morte Darthur, this book provides the first full-length survey of the alterations Malory made to female characters in his source texts. Through detailed comparisons with both Old French and Middle English material, Siobhán M. Wyatt discusses how Malory radically altered his French and English source texts to create a gendered pattern in the reliability of speech, depicting female discourse as valuable and truthful. Malory’s authorial crafting indicates his preference for a certain “type” of female character: self-governing, opinionated, and strong. Simultaneously, the portrayal of this very readable “type” yields characterization. While late medieval court records indicate an increasingly negative attitude towards female speech and a tendency to punish vociferous women as “scolds,” Malory makes the words of chiding damsels constructive. While his contemporary writers suppress the powers of magical women, Malory empowers his enchantress characters; while the authors of his French source texts accentuate Guinevere’s flaws, Malory portrays her with sympathy.
Pages
203 pages
Collection
Arthurian and Courtly Cultures
Parution
2016-10-05
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783319342030
EAN PDF
9783319342047
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2
Nombre pages imprimables
20
Taille du fichier
1905 Ko
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52,74 €
EAN EPUB
9783319342047
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
20
Taille du fichier
410 Ko
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52,74 €

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