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Malory and Christianity
As Hanks and Jesmok note in their introduction, "pursuing opponents and pursuing love move the Morte's narrative, but the work's richness comes from its romance and tragic elements: the human quest for maturity and fulfillment and those uncontrollable forces that undermine the quest and destroy the dream. Malory's use of myth and magic to explore these themes has received extensive scholarly attention, but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look."
The Social and Literary Contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur
Malory's world explored, from the battle of Towton to the "grete bokes" of chivalric material composd for aristocratic families.
E.L. Konigsburg (USAS)
The myriad elements that can darken a child's life - arguments with siblings, anger at parents who "don't understand," coping with divorce and a single parent - Konigsburg handles with unfailing hopefulness, Hanks contends. He shows how her unfaltering wit and sometimes-irritating but always-likable protagonists ease the burden of such family discords and help readers gain some perspective on their own development. Approaching the novels chronologically - but addressing the historical novels and story collections in separate chapters - Hanks explores the stylistic development of this self-described suburban housewife, who had done graduate work in chemistry and studied painting before beginning her first novel as a 35-year-old mother of three. Hanks points up the parallels between Konigsburg's personal history and the distinctive, wholly unprecedented plots she devises.
Sir Thomas Malory
As important as much-studied Malory is the generational resolution that scholarship undergoes and the fresh insights that result. In the present collection, eight essayists range from deconstructionist through reader-response theories to source studies as they view and re-view Malory's once and future king. Is Arthur the symbol of stable kingship? Ginger Thornton finds otherwise. Jeanne Drewes examines the question of identity among the knights, while Sally Firmin brings light to Malory's use of forests. Feminist concerns inform Krista May and Ginger Thornton's discussion of the Grail redemption theme. The Arthur-Guinevere-Launcelot love triangle is the subject of three other essays, and Jeffrey Morgan concludes with a look at Malory's "double ending."
E.L. Konigsburg
Describes the life and career of E.L. Konigsburg, from her early life and career to her rise as one of the most accomplished children's authors of her time.
Studies in the History of the English Language V
This collection of essays focuses on current approaches to variation and change in historical English grammar and lexicon. Of the twelve papers in the collection, half are based on grammar and syntax, half on lexical developments. The volume highlights the contributions that strong empirical research can make to our knowledge of the development of English grammar, especially as realized in lexical development. In illustration of contemporary research trends, the articles in the collection make strong use of extralinguistic factors to discuss language change as well as argue for internal and structural development. The authors are drawn from nine different countries, and each article is follo...
Marketing English Books, 1476-1550
Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-century readers' lives, shaping their expectations, tastes, and their practices and beliefs.
