ENGL 622
Sir Thomas Malory and
and His
Literary Descendants
Dr. Jo Koster
228 Bancroft
323-4557 (o)
kosterj@winthrop.edu
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj
Office Hours:
WR 1-3 and by appointment.
Reserve List
See his website at http://www.markadderley.net/arthur/malory/le-morte-darthur.html.
Additions in maroon are from Dr K.
Malory’s Life
Kittredge, George Lyman. Who Was Sir Thomas Malory? Boston, 1897.
Hicks, Edward. Sir Thomas Malory: His Turbulent Career: A Biography. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1928.
Carpenter, Christine. Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society 1401-99. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993.
- - - . “Caxton’s Roman War.” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 31-73.
Grimm, Kevin. “Editing Malory: What’s at (the) Stake?” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 5-14.
Hardyment, Christina. Malory. London, 2005.
Matthews, William. The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory. Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1966.
Moorman, Charles. “Desperately Defending Winchester: Arguments from the Edge.” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 24-30.
Noguchi, Shunichi. “The Winchester Malory.” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 15-23.
Griffith, Richard. R. “The Authorship Question Reconsidered: A Case for Thomas Malory of Papworth St. Agnes, Cambridgeshire.” Aspects of Malory. Ed. Toshiyuki Takamiya and Derek Brewer. Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1981: 159-77.
Malory’s Text
Ascham, Roger. Extract from The Schoolmaster. Twelfth Night, or What You Will: Texts and Contexts. By William Shakespeare. Ed. Bruce R. Smith. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001. 128-33.
Cooper, Helen. “Opening up the Malory Manuscript.” Wheeler, Kindrick, and Salda 256-84.
Field, P. J. C. “Caxton’s Roman War.” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 31-73.
- - - . “Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.” The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages 2. Ed. W. R. J. Barron. Rev. ed. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2001. 225-46.
Grimm, Kevin. “Editing Malory: What’s at (the) Stake?” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 5-14.
Hanks, D. Thomas, Jr. “Back to the Past: Editing Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.” Wheeler, Kindrick, and Salda 285-300.
Lumiansky, R. M., ed. Malory’s Originality: A Critical Study of Le Morte D’Arthur. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1964.
Malory, Sir Thomas. Le Morte d’Arthur, Printed by William Caxton. Ed. Paul Needham. London: Oxford UP and Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976.
- - - . The Winchester Malory: A Facsimile. Ed. N. R. Ker. Early English Text Society. London: Oxford UP, 1976.
- - - . Works. Ed. Eugène Vinaver. Rev. P. J. C. Field. 3 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993.
- - - . Le Morte Darthur, or The Hoole Book of Kyng Arthur and of His Noble Knyghtes of the Rounde Table. Ed. Stephen H. A. Shepherd. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
Moorman, Charles. “Desperately Defending Winchester: Arguments from the Edge.” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 24-30.
Nakao, Yuji. “Musings on the Reviser of Book V in Caxton’s Malory.” Wheeler, Kindrick, and Salda 191-216.
Noguchi, Shunichi. “The Winchester Malory.” Arthuriana 5.2 (1995): 15-23.
Takagi, Masako, and Toshiyuki Takamiya. “Caxton Edits the Roman War Episode: The Chronicles of England and Caxton’s Book V.” Wheeler, Kindrick, and Salda 169-90.
Vinaver, Eugène. “Sir Thomas Malory.” Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History. Ed. Roger Sherman Loomis. Oxford: Clarendon, 1959. 541-52.
Wheeler, Bonnie, Robert L. Kindrick, and Michael N. Salda, eds. The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000.
Le Morte Darthur: Criticism and Contexts
Barber, Richard. “Chivalry and the Morte Darthur.” A Companion to Malory. Ed. Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. 19-35.
Batt, Catherine. “Malory and Rape.” Arthuriana 7.3 (1997): 78-99.
Bliss, Jane. “Prophecy in the Morte Darthur.” Arthuriana 13.1 (2003): 1-16.
Cawsey, Kathy. Merlin’s Magical Writing: Writing and the Written Word in Le Morte Darthur and the English Prose Merlin.” Arthuriana 11.3 (2001): 89-101.
Coleman, Joyce. “Reading Malory Aloud in the Fifteenth Century: Aural Reception and Performance Dynamics.” Arthuriana 13.4 (2003): 48-70.
Davidson, Roberta. “Prison and Knightly Identity in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur.” Arthuriana 14.2 (2004): 54-63.
Denton, Jeanette Marshall. “Malory’s Dialect.” Arthuriana 13.4 (2003): 14-47.
Edwards, Elizabeth. “The Place of Women in the Morte Darthur.” A Companion to Malory. Ed. Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. 37-54.
Field, P. J. C. “Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur.” The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages 2. Ed. W. R. J. Barron. Rev. ed. Cardiff: U of Wales P, 2001. 225-46.
- - - . Romance and Chronicle: A Study of Malory’s Style. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1971.
Hanks, D. Thomas, Jr. “Epilogue: Malory’s Morte Darthur and ‘the Place of the Voice.’” Arthuriana 13.4 (2003): 119-133.
Heng, Geraldine. “Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory.” Courtly Literature: Culture and Context. Ed. Keith Busby and Erik Kooper. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990. 283-300.
Kelly, Robert L. “Royal Policy and Malory’s Round Table.” Arthuriana 14.1 (2004): 43-71.
Lambert, Mark. Malory: Style and Vision in “Le Morte Darthur.” New Haven: Yale UP, 1975.
McCarthy, Terence. An Introduction to Malory. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1988. 124-34.
Riddy, Felicity. “`Contextualizing Le Morte Darthur: Empire and Civil War.” A Companion to Malory. Ed. Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. 55-73.
Smith, Jeremy. “Language and Style in Malory.” A Companion to Malory. Ed. Elizabeth Archibald and A. S. G. Edwards. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1996. 97-113.
Tiller, Kenneth. “En-graving Chivalry: Tombs, Burial, and the Ideology of Knighthood in Malory’s Tale of King Arthur.” Arthuriana 14.2 (2004): 37-53.