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Disability and Knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur / by Tory Pearman.

By: Pearman, Tory [author.]Contributor(s): Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429445453Subject(s): People with disabilities in literature | Knights and knighthood in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 823/.2 LOC classification: PR2047Online resources: Click here to view. Also available in print format.

Contents:

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: "Able to do Lyke a Knight": Disability in Malorys Morte Darthur -- Chapter 1: "Disability, Lovesickness, and the Chivalric Code: Women Healers and Harmers in the Morte" -- Chapter 2: "For whome he wente oute of hys minde: Women and the Love-madness of Tristram and Lancelot" -- Chapter 3: "(Dis)abling Heteronormativity: The Touch of the Queer/Crip in Malorys Morte" -- Chapter 4: "Vessels of Blood: (Dis)abled Bodies and the Grail in Malorys Tale of the Sankgreal" -- Chapter 5: Lancelots Wounds, the Healing of Urry, and Images of (Dis)ability in the Book of Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere -- Afterword -- --Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Abstract: This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory’s Morte Darthur. The study asserts that Malory’s unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight’s physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights’ movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory’s book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text’s fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text’s multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the "hoole book" that Malory envisions. The Morte, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses.

Also available in print format.