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Arthurian Literature XXVIII. Blood, Sex, Malory: Essays on the "Morte Darthur"

By David Clark , Kate McClune (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
D. S. Brewer
Year
2011
ISBN
1843842815, 9781843842811
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1097442 bytes)
Volume
28
Pages
214\218
Topic
Literature
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-07-25 13:02:53

Description

General Editors: Elizabeth Archibald and David Johnson. Sex, blood, and gender have diverse associations in the Malorian tradition, yet their inter-relatedness and intersections are comparatively understudied. This present collection of essays is intended to go some way toward remedying the need for a sustained examination of blood ties, kinship, gender, and sexuality, and the prominence of these themes in Malory's work. They concentrate in particular upon the analyses of sexuality and sexual activity (and its lack or erasure) and the significance of blood (and blood-shedding) in the 'Morte Darthur', as well as the interconnections with gender (biological sex) and familial ("blood") relations in the 'Morte', its sources and its later reworkings. The result is a wide-ranging investigation into related but distinctive thematic preoccupations, including the national and kinship affiliations of Malorian knights, sibling relationships, deviant sexuality, and blood-spilling in martial and intimate contexts.

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