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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cherewatuk, Karen
• Roland, Meg

Titel

‘But rather I wolde sey: here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyff’: Malorian and Scholarly Retraction

Ist Teil von

• Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex.), 2019-04, Vol.29 (1), p.3-9

Ort / Verlag

West Lafayette: Scriptorium Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Many of the scholars contributing to this volume have had long careers in Arthurian literature; the idea of retraction as reconsideration opened up the possibility of approaching our work with a bit of humility, fortunately not of the death-bed variety, but to harvest, as Chaucer wrote, ‘newe corne’ from ‘olde feldes’ and to create ‘out of olde bokes . . . newe science.’1 ‘“But rather I wolde sey”’ began as a roundtable of Malory scholars at the International Arthurian Congress, held in Wurzburg in 2017, and continued at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in 2018 (see photos, below). [...]Twomey’s contribution undergirds this entire collection. According to Twomey, the logic of those innovative forms of retractions lead to a ‘both/and’ view of literary composition which allows renewal of the legend within individual authors’ works and across the Arthurian corpus. First formulated by William Matthews and cemented by Russell A. Peck and the authors in Karl Heinz Göller’s collection, ‘ironic’ readings condemn ‘Alliterative-Arthur’ for cruelty and vengeance.