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Malory's Originality

A Critical Study of Le Morte Darthur

edited by R. M. Lumiansky
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Originally published in 1964. The book presents a commentary on Le Morte d'Arthur that illuminates Malory's literary aims and techniques. The author brings to bear several hitherto unused source materials on Malory's work and offers new analyses of his authorial purposes. Lumiansky argues that Malory wrote a single unified book rather than eight separate tales. The source of Malory's story is an Old French romance known as the Suite du Merlin. Lumiansky traces Malory's originality through Malory's treatment of the main generic features of the Suite du Merlin.

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Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Tale of King Arthur": Beginnings and Foreshadowings
Chapter 2. "The Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius": The Rise of Lancelot
Chapter 3. "The Tale of

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Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Tale of King Arthur": Beginnings and Foreshadowings
Chapter 2. "The Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius": The Rise of Lancelot
Chapter 3. "The Tale of Lacncelot": Prelude to Adultery
Chapter 4. "The Tale of Gareth": The Chivalric Flowering
Chapter 5. "The Tale of Tristram": Development by Analogy
Chapter 6. "The Tale of the Sankgreall": Human Frailty
Chapter 7. "The Tale of Lancelot and Guenever": Suspense
Chapter 8. "The Tale of the Death of Arthur": Catastrophe and Resolution
Index

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R. M. Lumiansky

Robert M. Lumiansky was a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. He specialized in medieval English.
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