"But that was but favour of makers": Retractions, Editions, and Authorship in Malory's "Le Morte Darthur."
- Author / Editor
- Roland, Meg.
"But that was but favour of makers": Retractions, Editions, and Authorship in Malory's "Le Morte Darthur."
- Published
- Arthuriana 29 (2019): 34-49.
- Description
- Argues that the two instances of Malory's refutation of his sources in "Morte" are "a form of retraction," and that combined with the work's final explicit they "lie in the literary shadow Ret,” comparing and contrasting Ret with Malory's withdrawals, and aligning them with learning through retrospection.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucer's Retraction