Books by K.S. Whetter

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years of the English Arthurian tradition.

The essays in this collection present a range of new ideas and approaches in Malory studies, looking again [as the title suggests] at several of the most debated critical points. A number of articles focus closely on the implications of the production of the text, ranging from the repercussions of the working habits of the Winchester scribes, as well as of Malory's printers and editors, to a reassessment of Caxton's Preface. There are also nuanced readingsof geography and politics in the Morte Darthur and its fifteenth-century contexts, and analyses of text and context in relation to the role of women, character and theme in the Morte, including the important questions of worshyp and mesure, as well as the issues of coherence and genre.

Combining a comparative study of genre with a study of romance, this book constitutes a contribution to debates over the definition of romance and the genre and artistry of Malory's Morte Darthur. It offers an approach to these issues by prefacing a study of romance with a ranging and historically diverse study of genre and genre theory.