Aspects of Malory

This volume of essays is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory an author who has always been enjoyed by the common reader but is still sometimes underestimated by the critics. Despite an increasing number of articles onMalory there is a need for a general survey of recent research which Aspects of Malory provides. The volume opens with a note by the late Professor Vinaver on Malory''s prose and three essays on Malory''s Englishness andhis English sources including an essay by P. J. C. Field which argues for an English rather than a French origin for the Tale of Gareth. This is followed by two essays on Malory''s French sources by Jill Mann and Mary Hynes-Berry. Terence McCarthy re-exasmines the sequence of the tales and three further essays look at the scribal and textual tradition of Malory''s work in particular the relationship between the Winchester MS Caxton''s printed version and the history of the MS. Finally Richard R. Griffith reconsiders the authorship question and proposes a long-forgotten Thomas Malory as the most likely candidate. There is a bibliography of recent research compiled byProfessor Takamiya. .`Full of sound scholarship''. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT