{"product_id":"disability-and-knighthood-in-malorys-morte-darthur-paperback","title":"Disability and Knighthood in Malory's Morte Darthur - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTory Pearman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book considers the representation of disability and knighthood in Malory's \u003ci\u003eMorte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e. The study asserts that Malory's unique definition of knighthood, which emphasizes the unstable nature of the knight's physical body and the body of chivalry to which he belongs, depends upon disability. As a result, a knight must perpetually oscillate between disability and ability in order to maintain his status. The knights' movement between disability and ability is also essential to the project of Malory's book, as well as its narrative structure, as it reflects the text's fixation on and alternation between the wholeness and fragmentation of physical and social bodies. Disability in its many forms undergirds the book, helping to cohere the text's multiple and sometimes disparate chapters into the \"hoole book\" that Malory envisions.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eMorte\u003c\/i\u003e, thus, construes disability as an as an ambiguous, even liminal state that threatens even as it shores up the cohesive notion of knighthood the text endorses. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTory V. Pearman, Associate Professor of English at Miami University Hamilton, earned her M.A. at Purdue University and her Ph.D. from Loyola University. She has published widely on the intersections between gender and disability in medieval literature. She is author of \u003ci\u003eWomen and Disability in Medieval Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47413261664434,"sku":"9780367665876","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/9ec8ebb5c24be3f18684948e97f5878b.webp?v=1778345209","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/disability-and-knighthood-in-malorys-morte-darthur-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}