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Article: Teaching Malory's Morte Darthur with chronicles.(Sir Thomas Malory)
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- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Abstract
Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur can be a difficult text to teach, especially in a literature survey course. One way to successfully teach the selections of Malory's work present in most anthologies of British literature is to eschew the practice of summarizing the majority of Malory's narrative, and instead focus on the stylistic and cultural similarities that Malory and his contemporary medieval chroniclers of the Wars of the Roses share.
Introduction
The opportunity to teach Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur in a British Literature survey course, such as "British Literature I: Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century," comes with just ...