Courtly Love in Malory
1960; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 27; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2871877
ISSN1080-6547
Autores Tópico(s)Scottish History and National Identity
ResumoTaken together, a number of the recent close studies of Sir Thomas Malory's treatment of his French and English sources ' reveal one unmistakable fact about Malory's purpose in writing the Morte Darthur: that Malory intended from the very beginning of his labors to set down in English a unified Arthuriad which should have as its great theme the birth, flowering, and decline of an almost perfect earthly civilization. An analysis of the structure of the Morte Darthur reveals also that in order to give unity and coherence to his book, Malory singled out and focussed upon three leit-motifs of the legend-the love of Lancelot and Guinevere, the Lot-Pellinore feud, and the Grail quest-each of which defines one of' the causes of the downfall of Arthur's kingdom, the failures in love, in loyalty, in religion.
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