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GREENE, WENDY TIBBETTS.

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MALORY'S USES OF THE ENCHANTED: A STUDY IN NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	MALORY'S USES OF THE ENCHANTED: A STUDY IN NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE./
Author:	GREENE, WENDY TIBBETTS.
Description:	162 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-08, Section: A, page: 2661.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International43-08A.
Subject:	Medieval literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8300818

MALORY'S USES OF THE ENCHANTED: A STUDY IN NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE.
GREENE, WENDY TIBBETTS.

MALORY'S USES OF THE ENCHANTED: A STUDY IN NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-08, Section: A, page: 2661.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1982.

This essay explores the patterns which appear when Malory's uses of the enchanted are examined within the framework of the major divisions of his book. P. J. C. Field has suggested that Malory's work rests, more heavily than do most works of fiction, on the sensitivity of the reader's response. Part of the study's method, therefore, is to search out the reader's responses to enchanted prophecy, to enchanted creatures, and to scenes of enchantment, as they grow and change within the narrative. Malory, the study finds, uses the enchanted to foreshadow the tragic final failure of the round table and its values and to reinforce those elements of the story with ominous undertones. Magical incidents come to be associated with the greatest failings of Man's nature (disloyalty, vengeance, adultery) as Malory sees them, and magical incidents are consistently connected with some of the most destructive characters (Morgan, Morgawse, and Merlin). Magic becomes inextricable from the book's negative themes; and, conversely, the absence of the enchanted becomes associated with positive values. Magic eventually, because of its constant association with evil, acquires the force of an impulsive and irrational causal principle, while all that is lasting, carefully reasoned, and unmagical is associated with the good. Yet Malory's uses of the enchanted do not, in the end, lessen the value of his transient created world. The magical scene surrounding Arthur's death and his four prophetic visions contribute significantly to the moral ambiguity, to the redemptive thrust, and to the reader's sense of loss at the end of the Morte.Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168324
Medieval literature.

MALORY'S USES OF THE ENCHANTED: A STUDY IN NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE.
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