T.H. White's The Once and Future KingBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 1993 - 236 páginas A critical study of T.H. White's classic Arthurian tetralogy. The Once and Future King defies classification. Is it for children, or for adults? Is it fantasy or a psychological novel? In its great range, it encompasses poetry and farce, comedy and tragedy -and sudden flights of schoolboy humour. White's `footnote to Malory' (his own phrase) resulted in the last major retelling of the story based on Malory's Morte Darthur, and Elisabeth Brewer explores the literary context of White's finest work as wellas considering his aims and achievement in writing it. |
Contenido
The Genesis of The Sword in the Stone | 17 |
From The Witch in the Wood to The Queen of Air and Darkness | 48 |
The IllMade Knight | 76 |
The Candle in the Wind | 104 |
Comedy in The Once and Future King | 127 |
Merlyn and The Book of Merlyn | 141 |
The Education of Princes | 165 |
Whites Historical Imagination | 188 |
White and Malory | 207 |
Bibliography | 227 |