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Book SynopsisSeminal essays on one of the most crucial issues in Arthurian studies.For the past fifty years, debates about which text of Malory scholars and teachers should prefer have sparked much controversy: which is the most authentic or authoritative, Caxton, the Winchester version, or a mixture of both (asproposed by Vinaver)? The papers in this volume represent the most important contributions to the dialogue; previously published articles have been updated where relevant and new issues are presented in several original essays, while the introductions place the argument in its theoretical and historical contexts. Professor BONNIE WHEELER teaches at the Southern Methodist University; Professor MICHAEL SALDA teaches at the University of SouthernMississippi; Professor ROBERT KINDRICK teaches at the University of Montana. Contributors: MICHAEL N. SALDA, KEVIN GRIMM, SHUNICHI NOGUCHI, CHARLES MOORMAN, P.J.C. FIELD, WILLIAM MATTHEWS, ROBERT KINDRICK, HELEN COOPER, TOSHIYUKI TAKAMIYA, YUJI NAKAO, NORMAN BLAKE
Trade ReviewAn illuminating volume for any scholar with an interest in textual issues. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY BOOK SOCIETY *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - the debate on editing Malory's "Le Morte Darthur", Bonnie Wheeler and Michael N. Salda; Caxton and Chaucer - a re-view, the beseiged printer, a question of texts, William Matthews; desperately defending Winchester - arguments from the edge, Charles Moorman; the Winchester Malory, Shunichi Noguchi; Caxton's "Roman War", P.J.C. Field; Caxton edits the "Roman War Episode" - the chronicles of England and Caxton's Book V, Masako Takagi and Toshiyuki Takamiya; musings on the reviser of Book V in Caxton's Malory, Yuji Nakao; Caxton, Malory, and the "Noble Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius", Edward Donald Kennedy; Caxton at work - a reconsideration, N.F. Blake; opening up the Malory Manuscript, Helen Cooper; back to the past - editing Malory's "Le Morte Darthur", D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.; reading Malory's text aloud, Shunichi Noguchi; Malory's "Roman War Episode" - an argument for a parallel text, Meg Roland; on the attractions of the Malory incunable and the Malory manuscript, Sue Ellen Holbrook; afterword - the Winchester Malory manuscript - an attempted history, Paul Yeats-Edwards.
